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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:14:54 -0400
To: Cygwin AT Sourceware DOT Cygnus DOT Com
Subject: Re: Exit code zero in case of STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION - AC_TRY_RUN confused
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In-Reply-To: <000201bff6d0$f46e19f0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru>; from Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru on Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:13:10AM +0400

On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:13:10AM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>> > This particular problem was due to tgetent() problem. Zsh tests, if
>> > tgetent() accepts null pointer for buffer. Unfortunately,
>> test always
>> > succeeded, but running under gdb showed, that Zsh crashed in
>> > tgetent(0,"cygwin").
>> >
>
>Test succeeded because you get exit status 0 in case of program crash
>(and AC_TRY_RUN believed everything O.K.):

Thanks for the test case.

This appears to be a long-standing bug in cygwin, which I've just fixed.

This fix will appear in Cygwin 1.1.3.

cgf

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