VI dumps core for no reason

[Alan Fargusson]

> 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.
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Alan Fargusson.

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