Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site drivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!amdahl!drivax!alan From: alan@drivax.UUCP (Alan Fargusson) Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg Subject: Re: VI dumps core for no reason Message-ID: <207@drivax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 16:42:01 EDT Article-I.D.: drivax.207 Posted: Thu Aug 15 16:42:01 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 22:14:52 EDT References: <106@rruxu.UUCP> Organization: Digital Research, Monterey, CA Lines: 17 > Has anyone out there encountered problems with VI and certain terminals > that cause VI to dump core? I use an HP 2392A, and on occasion (this > is one of those nasty intermittent bugs) when I invoke VI, as soon as I'm > in and type any character, I get the "memory fault - core dumped" > message we all know and love and VI quits. Yes, I have seen VI dump core. We had lots of problems dumping core on the 286 when we were porting it. There is a lot of questionable code in VI in the area of memory allocation, and there a several places where it dereferences NULL (contents are zero) pointers. This works most of the time on a VAX, but never on a 286. I didn't port it, and I don't know exactly where to look to fix it. -- Alan Fargusson. { ihnp4, amdahl, mot }!drivax!alan