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Re: [bug] tic -x and use= building blocks


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: [bug] tic -x and use= building blocks
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 14:56:59 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Alain Bench wrote:

On Monday, April 3, 2006 at 21:29:18 +0200, Alain Bench wrote:

Some useless (and harmless) data is appended to a compiled terminfo
entry which is use=d by another entry, if the later has custom
extended or commented out capabilities.

   Thanks: This precise case is cleaned in Ncurses-5.5-20060408.
However there remains a little related dust under the carpet: Garbage is
appended to an entry which uses another one, when the later has already
been used before, and the using ones declare custom caps.

   Example test2.src attached, defining 3 entries:

- test1 is the sole building block
- test2 uses test1 and adds an AX extended cap
- test3 uses test1 and adds a BY extended cap

   Compile with "tic -x test2.src", and "less ~/.terminfo/t/test3"
shows an unexpected trace of AX.

hmm - I can see generally what the problem is - will work on it, but it's
not a simple one, since really fixing this will require some study of the
use-resolution logic.  For yesterday's fix, I thought initially that I
could discard the changes to the source structure after computing the
merge, but found that it wasn't that simple - so I settled for truncating
the data on a write.  If we're seeing some contamination as you report,
then going back to make my initial try work should solve this problem.


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