Re: Segfault with newer .zwc

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Clint Adams wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:53:06AM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > > Debian (last Changelog entry is 2007-12-27). When using this file with
> > > zsh from the zsh package (last Changelog entry is 2007-12-20) it crashes.
> > 
> > Most of the time this doesn't matter but if there is a change in parsing it
> > can make a difference.
> 
> Was there a parsing change between 12-20 and 12-27?

Not obviously, but if the complaint is that a wordcode file works with
one release but not another, which is how I read it, that's what's going
on.

> I could inject a datestamp into the version string if this is a
> significant issue.

That's probably a sensible idea, though to avoid confusing is-at-least
it would be best if it only appeared if there was a dev-N before it.

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