'sed -e' dumps core

[Maarten Litmaath]

In article <25927 at ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> bostic at ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic) writes:
\In article <1334 at solo7.cs.vu.nl>, maart at cs.vu.nl writes:
\> 'sed -e' without any further argument dumps core.
\> A fix should be easy.
\
\This is not useful information.  Sed on what machine running what
\OS?  If available, it would also be nice to know what version of
\sed (see what(1), or strings(1)) you were running.  "sed -e" seems
\to work fine on 4.[0123]BSD and 4.3BSD-tahoe.
\
\Keith Bostic

On 2.9BSD on a PDP11/44 the output of 'sed -e | cat -v' is:

	Unrecognized command:   M-pM-^@^]^B

On Sun UNIX 4.2 Release 3.5 the output of 'what /bin/sed' is:

/bin/sed
	crt0.s	1.2	86/10/07	Copyr 1985 Sun Micro
	sed0.c 1.2 86/10/07 SMI
	sed1.c 1.2 86/10/07 SMI
	fopen.c 1.2 86/10/07 SMI
	filbuf.c 1.2 86/10/07 SMI
	fprintf.c 1.2 86/10/07 SMI
	doprnt.c 1.4 87/07/01 SMI
	flsbuf.c 1.2 86/10/07 SMI
	exit.c 1.2 86/10/07 Copyr 1984 Sun Micro
	_itoa.s 1.2 86/10/07 Copyr 1984 Sun Micro
	ctype_.c 1.2 86/10/07 SMI
	findiop.c 1.2 86/10/07 SMI
	calloc.c 1.2 86/10/07 SMI
	malloc.c 1.3 86/10/07 SMI
	isinf.c 1.2 86/10/07 SMI
	memchr.c 1.2 86/10/07 SMI
	q.s 1.2 86/10/07 Copyr 1984 Sun Micro
	unpkd.s 1.2 86/10/07 Copyr 1984 Sun Micro
	upottab.c 1.2 86/10/07 Copyr 1984 Sun Micro
	isatty.c 1.2 86/10/07 SMI

And the output of 'sed -e':

	Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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