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Re: allocation bug

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: pws@xxxxxx (Peter Stephenson)
Subject: Re: allocation bug
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 22:13:08 +0100 (MET)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199612041101.MAA20376@xxxxxxxxxxxx> from Peter Stephenson at "Dec 4, 96 12:01:04 pm"
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Peter Stephenson wrote:
> This comes from the REPORTTIME code.  Presumably it showed up here
> because the job exited and caused a SIGCHLD while zle was active.
> Maybe there's more possible nastiness in code that can get called from
> the signal handler?

Yes, you get the same when the shell reads TMOUT.  There is a potentional
memory leak when the requested variable is an array.  Perhaps it would be
better to put HEAPALLOC into getstrvalue or to the place where arrays are
joined.

Zoltan

References:
- Re: allocation bug
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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