Re: Bug#183730: zsh: setting SAVEHIST breaks history saving without warning

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Clint Adams wrote:
> > (Why does this `break history saving'?  Or is the subject line
> > inaccurate?  I'll assume the latter for now.)
> 
> I think he set SAVEHIST to some enormously large value which wrapped to
> 0, and thus the saving of his history was "broken", without a clear
> indication why.

What could happen is the value when converted to int appeared negative
--- that would cause it to be set to zero.  More care with casts and
conversions ought to fix that.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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