Exit code zero in case of STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION - AC_TRY_RUN confused

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Wed Jul 26 13:15:00 GMT 2000


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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