Re: Problem with initscr(); in ncurses 5.7-2

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Archibald Pontier wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm sending you this e-mail because I recently received an error report
> about a program I'm developping which I can't deal with.

"5.7-2" is someone's package version.  Likely it's ncurses with some
patchdate - in curses.h for instance

#define NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH 20090404

that would be useful information

> Here is the bug report :
>
>    (gdb) run
>    Starting program: /tmp/yaourt-tmp-gyo/aur-asym/asym/src/asym/asym
>    asym: malloc.c :3074 : sYSMALLOc:  L'assertion « (old_top ==
>    (((mbinptr) (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2])) -
>    __builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd)))) && old_size == 0) ||
>    ((unsigned long) (old_size) >= (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof
>    (struct malloc_chunk, fd_nextsize))+((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1)) &
>    ~((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1))) && ((old_top)->size & 0x1) &&
>    ((unsigned long)old_end & pagemask) == 0) » failed.
>
>    Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
>    0xb7ffa424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
>    (gdb) bt
>    #0  0xb7ffa424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
>    #1  0xb7e77461 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
>    #2  0xb7e78c62 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
>    #3  0xb7e7049e in __assert_fail () from /lib/libc.so.6
>    #4  0xb7ebbca7 in _int_malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
>    #5  0xb7ebc9e0 in calloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
>    #6  0xb7fad3b3 in newwin () from /lib/libncursesw.so.5
>    #7  0xb7fafc07 in _nc_setupscreen () from /lib/libncursesw.so.5
>    #8  0xb7fac95d in newterm () from /lib/libncursesw.so.5
>    #9  0xb7fa9555 in initscr () from /lib/libncursesw.so.5
>    #10 0x080512a0 in interface_init () at src/interface.c:30
>    #11 0x08055a62 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfa39a64) at src/main.c:43
>
> and, if it can help :
> http://git.tyruiop.org/?p=asym.git;a=blob;f=src/main.c
> http://git.tyruiop.org/?p=asym.git;a=blob;f=src/interface.c
>
> Thank you for taking a look at this.
>
> Archibald
>
>
>
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