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From: Anh Vo <anhvofrcaus@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Anyone see a problem in 5.7 ncurses Ada?
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 11:45:23 -0800 (PST)
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On Mar 9, 10:55=A0am, localh...@example.org wrote:
> I had built some programs against an earlier version of ncurses, I can't
> remember whether it was 5.5 or later and they were working fine. When I
> rebuilt them against 5.7 a few of them broke. I have tracked it down to
> incorrect values being returned by get_size. For a 24x80 xterm get_size i=
s
> returning 25 columns and 81 lines. This makes the values actually 2 highe=
r
> than they should be, because the numbers are supposed to be
> zero-relative. That is the lines should be 23 and the columns 79. Has any=
one
> else noticed this? I don't know whether it's in the Ada binding or in
> ncurses itself. I would think if ncurses itself was broken people would h=
ave
> noted and fixed it but then again I don't think the Ada binding has been
> touched in years (and wow, it's good).

I do not know much about it until recently. Try the latest version,
5.8. If the problem still persists, try version 5.6 or older before
sending a bug report.

Anh Vo