Karim BELABAS on Tue, 1 Dec 1998 16:11:21 +0100 (MET)


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Re: A very bad bug


[Igor Schein:]
> > ? \k
> > [...]
> > ? \q
> >   ***   segmentation fault: bug in GP (please report).
> 
[Iwao Kimura:]
> The problem is, as far as I understand, bufindex is initialized by
> sentinel value -1 in gp_preinit(), but this is overlooked in
> gp_quit().

Another solution is to remove completely this \k command which looks a bit
pointless. Anybody finds it useful ? 

[It would make some more sense it it restarted a "clean" session, re-reading
the init files and so on, but this would be about as fast as quitting then
starting a new session.]

Karim.
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