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From: conrad@cgl.ucsf.edu (Conrad Huang%CGL)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: problems with tcsh for 4.3
Message-ID: <10423@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 16:43:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 16:43:49 1987
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In article <433@oswego.UUCP> stjohn@oswego.UUCP (David St. John) writes:
>When I type a tab on the command line as the first character the tcsh gives
>me a 'segmentation fault (core dump)'.

There is a small bug in the tw_add_builtins() function in file tw.init.c
where it passes an uninitialized pointer to another function.  Here is a
context diff:

*** tw.init.c	Fri Oct  2 14:43:03 1987
--- tw.init.old	Mon Oct  5 13:53:30 1987
***************
*** 124,130 ****
  #ifdef	OUTDEF
      for (bptr = bfunc; cp = bptr->bname; bptr++) {
  #endif
! 	tw_add_comm_name (bptr->bname);
      }
  }
  
--- 124,130 ----
  #ifdef	OUTDEF
      for (bptr = bfunc; cp = bptr->bname; bptr++) {
  #endif
! 	tw_add_comm_name (cp);
      }
  }
  
Conrad