Re: Segfault on "task <Tab><Tab>" with zsh 5.0.2

[Axel Beckert <abe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter,

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 09:37:32AM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Looks like a memory error.  Does valgrind give any extra hints?

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:51:39PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Might not be related, but it's hard to be sure --- if there is bad
> memory around, the completion system has a good chance of being the part
> that falls over it.

Ah, did you mean malfunctioning RAM as in "hardware defect"?

But shouldn't it be then less easy to reproduce as different memory
areas should be in use when trying it a day later or so?

The machine is a Xen DomU virtual machine btw. -- not sure if that
makes a difference here.

> cap_get_proc() is a library call with no arguments,
> but it does do allocation --- if you have zsh's own memory allocation
> built in there

If ansi2knr or gcc 4.7 vs 4.8 doesn't change anything there, there
should be no difference in compile time options between to 5.0.2
compilation which segfaults and the one which doesn't.

		Kind regards, Axel
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