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|
# ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220101 - Thomas E. Dickey
#
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Ncurses 6.3 is at
# ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/
# https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/
# https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/
#
# Patches for ncurses 6.3 can be found at
# ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/6.3
# https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/6.3
#
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/6.3/ncurses-6.3-20220101.patch.gz
# patch by Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
# created Sun Jan 2 01:07:07 UTC 2022
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Ada95/package/debian/copyright | 2
# COPYING | 4
# NEWS | 8 +
# VERSION | 2
# dist.mk | 6 -
# doc/html/man/adacurses6-config.1.html | 2
# doc/html/man/captoinfo.1m.html | 2
# doc/html/man/clear.1.html | 2
# doc/html/man/curs_termcap.3x.html | 44 +++++++--
# doc/html/man/curs_terminfo.3x.html | 146 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
# doc/html/man/form.3x.html | 2
# doc/html/man/infocmp.1m.html | 2
# doc/html/man/infotocap.1m.html | 2
# doc/html/man/menu.3x.html | 2
# doc/html/man/ncurses.3x.html | 2
# doc/html/man/ncurses6-config.1.html | 2
# doc/html/man/panel.3x.html | 2
# doc/html/man/tabs.1.html | 2
# doc/html/man/terminfo.5.html | 2
# doc/html/man/tic.1m.html | 2
# doc/html/man/toe.1m.html | 2
# doc/html/man/tput.1.html | 2
# doc/html/man/tset.1.html | 2
# man/curs_termcap.3x | 36 ++++++-
# man/curs_terminfo.3x | 31 ++++++
# package/debian-mingw/changelog | 4
# package/debian-mingw/copyright | 2
# package/debian-mingw64/changelog | 4
# package/debian-mingw64/copyright | 2
# package/debian/changelog | 4
# package/debian/copyright | 2
# package/mingw-ncurses.nsi | 6 -
# package/mingw-ncurses.spec | 2
# package/ncurses.spec | 2
# package/ncursest.spec | 2
# test/package/debian-mingw/copyright | 2
# test/package/debian-mingw64/copyright | 2
# test/package/debian/copyright | 2
# 38 files changed, 228 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Index: Ada95/package/debian/copyright
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/Ada95/package/debian/copyright 2021-01-01 09:54:30.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/Ada95/package/debian/copyright 2022-01-02 00:28:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Files: *
-Copyright: 2017-2020,2021 by Thomas E. Dickey
+Copyright: 2017-2021,2022 by Thomas E. Dickey
Copyright: 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Licence: X11
Index: COPYING
Prereq: 1.10
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/COPYING 2021-01-01 09:54:30.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/COPYING 2022-01-01 11:47:50.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey
+Copyright 2018-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey
Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@
authorization.
-- vile:txtmode fc=72
--- $Id: COPYING,v 1.10 2021/01/01 09:54:30 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: COPYING,v 1.11 2022/01/01 11:47:50 tom Exp $
Index: NEWS
Prereq: 1.3761
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/NEWS 2021-12-26 00:29:27.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/NEWS 2022-01-01 23:59:36.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey --
+-- Copyright 2018-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey --
-- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. --
-- --
-- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a --
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
-- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written --
-- authorization. --
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3761 2021/12/26 00:29:27 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3764 2022/01/01 23:59:36 tom Exp $
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+20220101
+ + add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and
+ curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
+
20211225
+ improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages
(prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
Index: VERSION
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/VERSION 2021-12-24 20:26:19.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/VERSION 2022-01-01 11:46:49.000000000 +0000
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5:0:10 6.3 20211225
+5:0:10 6.3 20220101
Index: dist.mk
Prereq: 1.1458
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/dist.mk 2021-12-25 22:11:07.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/dist.mk 2022-01-01 11:48:38.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
##############################################################################
-# Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey #
+# Copyright 2018-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey #
# Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. #
# #
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a #
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
# use or other dealings in this Software without prior written #
# authorization. #
##############################################################################
-# $Id: dist.mk,v 1.1458 2021/12/25 22:11:07 tom Exp $
+# $Id: dist.mk,v 1.1460 2022/01/01 11:48:38 tom Exp $
# Makefile for creating ncurses distributions.
#
# This only needs to be used directly as a makefile by developers, but
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
# These define the major/minor/patch versions of ncurses.
NCURSES_MAJOR = 6
NCURSES_MINOR = 3
-NCURSES_PATCH = 20211225
+NCURSES_PATCH = 20220101
# We don't append the patch to the version, since this only applies to releases
VERSION = $(NCURSES_MAJOR).$(NCURSES_MINOR)
Index: doc/html/man/adacurses6-config.1.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/adacurses6-config.1.html 2021-12-25 22:12:43.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/adacurses6-config.1.html 2022-01-02 00:19:47.000000000 +0000
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
Index: doc/html/man/captoinfo.1m.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/captoinfo.1m.html 2021-12-25 22:12:43.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/captoinfo.1m.html 2022-01-02 00:19:47.000000000 +0000
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a></H2><PRE>
Index: doc/html/man/clear.1.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/clear.1.html 2021-12-26 00:19:27.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/clear.1.html 2022-01-02 00:19:47.000000000 +0000
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="tput.1.html">tput(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>xterm(1)</STRONG>.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
Index: doc/html/man/curs_termcap.3x.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/curs_termcap.3x.html 2021-12-26 00:04:53.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/curs_termcap.3x.html 2022-01-02 00:19:51.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<!--
****************************************************************************
- * Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey *
+ * Copyright 2018-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey *
* Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
* *
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a *
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
* sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written *
* authorization. *
****************************************************************************
- * @Id: curs_termcap.3x,v 1.52 2021/12/25 21:31:00 tom Exp @
+ * @Id: curs_termcap.3x,v 1.55 2022/01/01 23:49:07 tom Exp @
-->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<HTML>
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
been compiled.
-</PRE><H3><a name="h3-INITIALIZATION">INITIALIZATION</a></H3><PRE>
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Initialization">Initialization</a></H3><PRE>
The <STRONG>tgetent</STRONG> routine loads the entry for <EM>name</EM>. It returns:
1 on success,
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
ing.
-</PRE><H3><a name="h3-CAPABILITY-VALUES">CAPABILITY VALUES</a></H3><PRE>
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Capability-Values">Capability Values</a></H3><PRE>
The <STRONG>tgetflag</STRONG> routine gets the boolean entry for <EM>id</EM>, or zero if it is
not available.
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
and <STRONG>tgetstr</STRONG> are compared in lookups.
-</PRE><H3><a name="h3-FORMATTING-CAPABILITIES">FORMATTING CAPABILITIES</a></H3><PRE>
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Formatting-Capabilities">Formatting Capabilities</a></H3><PRE>
The <STRONG>tgoto</STRONG> routine expands the given capability using the parameters.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> Because the capability may have padding characters, the output of
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
It can retrieve capabilities by either termcap or terminfo name.
-</PRE><H3><a name="h3-GLOBAL-VARIABLES">GLOBAL VARIABLES</a></H3><PRE>
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Global-Variables">Global Variables</a></H3><PRE>
The variables <STRONG>PC</STRONG>, <STRONG>UP</STRONG> and <STRONG>BC</STRONG> are set by <STRONG>tgetent</STRONG> to the terminfo entry's
data for <STRONG>pad_char</STRONG>, <STRONG>cursor_up</STRONG> and <STRONG>backspace_if_not_bs</STRONG>, respectively. <STRONG>UP</STRONG>
is not used by ncurses. <STRONG>PC</STRONG> is used in the <STRONG>tdelay_output</STRONG> function. <STRONG>BC</STRONG>
@@ -165,6 +165,29 @@
in a system-specific coding to reflect the terminal speed.
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Releasing-Memory">Releasing Memory</a></H3><PRE>
+ The termcap functions provide no means for freeing memory, because
+ legacy termcap implementations used only the buffer areas provided by
+ the caller via <STRONG>tgetent</STRONG> and <STRONG>tgetstr</STRONG>. Those buffers are unused in ter-
+ minfo.
+
+ On the other hand, terminfo allocates memory. It uses <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> to re-
+ trieve the data used by <STRONG>tgetent</STRONG> and the functions which return capabil-
+ ity values such as <STRONG>tgetstr</STRONG>. One could use
+
+ <STRONG>del_curterm(cur_term);</STRONG>
+
+
+ to free this memory, but there is an additional complication with
+ ncurses. It uses a fixed-size <EM>pool</EM> of storage locations, one per set-
+ ting of the <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> variable when <STRONG>tgetent</STRONG> is called. The <STRONG>screen(1)</STRONG> pro-
+ gram relies upon this arrangement, to improve its performance.
+
+ An application which uses only the low-level termcap functions could
+ free the memory using <STRONG>del_curterm</STRONG>, because the pool is freed using oth-
+ er functions (see <STRONG><A HREF="curs_memleaks.3x.html">curs_memleaks(3x)</A></STRONG>).
+
+
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
Except where explicitly noted, routines that return an integer return
<STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other
@@ -322,10 +345,11 @@
<li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
<ul>
-<li><a href="#h3-INITIALIZATION">INITIALIZATION</a></li>
-<li><a href="#h3-CAPABILITY-VALUES">CAPABILITY VALUES</a></li>
-<li><a href="#h3-FORMATTING-CAPABILITIES">FORMATTING CAPABILITIES</a></li>
-<li><a href="#h3-GLOBAL-VARIABLES">GLOBAL VARIABLES</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-Initialization">Initialization</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-Capability-Values">Capability Values</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-Formatting-Capabilities">Formatting Capabilities</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-Global-Variables">Global Variables</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-Releasing-Memory">Releasing Memory</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></li>
Index: doc/html/man/curs_terminfo.3x.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/curs_terminfo.3x.html 2021-12-26 00:04:53.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/curs_terminfo.3x.html 2022-01-02 00:19:51.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<!--
****************************************************************************
- * Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey *
+ * Copyright 2018-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey *
* Copyright 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
* *
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a *
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@
* sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written *
* authorization. *
****************************************************************************
- * @Id: curs_terminfo.3x,v 1.79 2021/12/25 21:34:58 tom Exp @
+ * @Id: curs_terminfo.3x,v 1.80 2022/01/01 21:50:06 tom Exp @
+ * ***************************************************************************
+ * ***************************************************************************
* ***************************************************************************
* ***************************************************************************
* ***************************************************************************
@@ -348,9 +350,34 @@
<STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*strnames[]</STRONG>, <STRONG>*strcodes[]</STRONG>, <STRONG>*strfnames[]</STRONG>
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Releasing-Memory">Releasing Memory</a></H3><PRE>
+ Each successful call to <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> allocates memory to hold the terminal
+ description. As a side-effect, it sets <STRONG>cur_term</STRONG> to point to this memo-
+ ry. If an application calls
+
+ <STRONG>del_curterm(cur_term);</STRONG>
+
+ the memory will be freed.
+
+ The formatting functions <STRONG>tparm</STRONG> and <STRONG>tiparm</STRONG> extend the storage allocated
+ by <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG>:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> the "static" terminfo variables [a-z]. Before ncurses 6.3, those
+ were shared by all screens. With ncurses 6.3, those are allocated
+ per screen. See <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> for details.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> to improve performance, ncurses 6.3 caches the result of analyzing
+ terminfo strings for their parameter types. That is stored as a
+ binary tree referenced from the <STRONG>TERMINAL</STRONG> structure.
+
+ The higher-level <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> and <STRONG>newterm</STRONG> functions use <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG>. Normally
+ they do not free this memory, but it is possible to do that using the
+ <STRONG><A HREF="curs_initscr.3x.html">delscreen(3x)</A></STRONG> function.
+
+
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
- Routines that return an integer return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4
- only specifies "an integer value other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful com-
+ Routines that return an integer return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4
+ only specifies "an integer value other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful com-
pletion, unless otherwise noted in the preceding routine descriptions.
Routines that return pointers always return <STRONG>NULL</STRONG> on error.
@@ -372,25 +399,25 @@
ditions are documented above.
<STRONG>tputs</STRONG>
- returns an error if the string parameter is null. It does not
- detect I/O errors: X/Open states that <STRONG>tputs</STRONG> ignores the return
+ returns an error if the string parameter is null. It does not
+ detect I/O errors: X/Open states that <STRONG>tputs</STRONG> ignores the return
value of the output function <EM>putc</EM>.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Compatibility-macros">Compatibility macros</a></H3><PRE>
- This implementation provides a few macros for compatibility with sys-
+ This implementation provides a few macros for compatibility with sys-
tems before SVr4 (see <EM>HISTORY</EM>). Those include <STRONG>crmode</STRONG>, <STRONG>fixterm</STRONG>,
<STRONG>gettmode</STRONG>, <STRONG>nocrmode</STRONG>, <STRONG>resetterm</STRONG>, <STRONG>saveterm</STRONG>, and <STRONG>setterm</STRONG>.
- In SVr4, those are found in <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>, but except for <STRONG>setterm</STRONG>, are
+ In SVr4, those are found in <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>, but except for <STRONG>setterm</STRONG>, are
likewise macros. The one function, <STRONG>setterm</STRONG>, is mentioned in the manual
- page. The manual page notes that the <STRONG>setterm</STRONG> routine was replaced by
+ page. The manual page notes that the <STRONG>setterm</STRONG> routine was replaced by
<STRONG>setupterm</STRONG>, stating that the call:
<STRONG>setupterm(</STRONG><EM>term</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>1,</STRONG> <STRONG>(int</STRONG> <STRONG>*)0)</STRONG>
provides the same functionality as <STRONG>setterm(</STRONG><EM>term</EM><STRONG>)</STRONG>, and is not recommend-
- ed for new programs. This implementation provides each of those sym-
+ ed for new programs. This implementation provides each of those sym-
bols as macros for BSD compatibility,
@@ -403,7 +430,7 @@
fixterm restore tty to "in curses" state
gettmode establish current tty modes
mvcur low level cursor motion
- putp utility function that uses <STRONG>tputs</STRONG> to send char-
+ putp utility function that uses <STRONG>tputs</STRONG> to send char-
acters via <STRONG>putchar</STRONG>.
resetterm set tty modes to "out of curses" state
resetty reset tty flags to stored value
@@ -414,10 +441,10 @@
tparm instantiate a string expression with parameters
tputs apply padding information to a string
vidattr like <STRONG>vidputs</STRONG>, but outputs through <STRONG>putchar</STRONG>
- vidputs output a string to put terminal in a specified
+ vidputs output a string to put terminal in a specified
video attribute mode
- The programming manual also mentioned functions provided for termcap
+ The programming manual also mentioned functions provided for termcap
compatibility (commenting that they "may go away at a later date"):
<STRONG>Function</STRONG> <STRONG>Description</STRONG>
@@ -430,19 +457,20 @@
tputs apply padding to capability, calling
a function to put characters
- Early terminfo programs obtained capability values from the <STRONG>TERMINAL</STRONG>
+ Early terminfo programs obtained capability values from the <STRONG>TERMINAL</STRONG>
structure initialized by <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG>.
- SVr3 extended terminfo by adding functions to retrieve capability val-
+ SVr3 extended terminfo by adding functions to retrieve capability val-
ues (like the termcap interface), and reusing tgoto and tputs:
<STRONG>Function</STRONG> <STRONG>Description</STRONG>
-------------------------------------------
tigetflag get boolean entry for given <EM>id</EM>
+
tigetnum get numeric entry for given <EM>id</EM>
tigetstr get string entry for given <EM>id</EM>
- SVr3 also replaced several of the SVr2 terminfo functions which had no
+ SVr3 also replaced several of the SVr2 terminfo functions which had no
counterpart in the termcap interface, documenting them as obsolete:
<STRONG>Function</STRONG> <STRONG>Replaced</STRONG> <STRONG>by</STRONG>
@@ -455,20 +483,20 @@
saveterm def_prog_mode
setterm setupterm
- SVr3 kept the <STRONG>mvcur</STRONG>, <STRONG>vidattr</STRONG> and <STRONG>vidputs</STRONG> functions, along with <STRONG>putp</STRONG>,
- <STRONG>tparm</STRONG> and <STRONG>tputs</STRONG>. The latter were needed to support padding, and han-
- dling functions such as <STRONG>vidattr</STRONG> (which used more than the two parame-
+ SVr3 kept the <STRONG>mvcur</STRONG>, <STRONG>vidattr</STRONG> and <STRONG>vidputs</STRONG> functions, along with <STRONG>putp</STRONG>,
+ <STRONG>tparm</STRONG> and <STRONG>tputs</STRONG>. The latter were needed to support padding, and han-
+ dling functions such as <STRONG>vidattr</STRONG> (which used more than the two parame-
ters supported by <STRONG>tgoto</STRONG>).
- SVr3 introduced the functions for switching between terminal descrip-
+ SVr3 introduced the functions for switching between terminal descrip-
tions, e.g., <STRONG>set_curterm</STRONG>. Some of that was incremental improvements to
the SVr2 library:
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> The <STRONG>TERMINAL</STRONG> type definition was introduced in SVr3.01, for the
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> The <STRONG>TERMINAL</STRONG> type definition was introduced in SVr3.01, for the
<STRONG>term</STRONG> structure provided in SVr2.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> The various global variables such as <STRONG>boolnames</STRONG> were mentioned in
- the programming manual at this point, though the variables were
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> The various global variables such as <STRONG>boolnames</STRONG> were mentioned in
+ the programming manual at this point, though the variables were
provided in SVr2.
SVr4 added the <STRONG>vid_attr</STRONG> and <STRONG>vid_puts</STRONG> functions.
@@ -483,15 +511,15 @@
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Legacy-functions">Legacy functions</a></H3><PRE>
X/Open notes that <STRONG>vidattr</STRONG> and <STRONG>vidputs</STRONG> may be macros.
- The function <STRONG>setterm</STRONG> is not described by X/Open and must be considered
+ The function <STRONG>setterm</STRONG> is not described by X/Open and must be considered
non-portable. All other functions are as described by X/Open.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Legacy-data">Legacy data</a></H3><PRE>
- <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> copies the terminal name to the array <STRONG>ttytype</STRONG>. This is not
+ <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> copies the terminal name to the array <STRONG>ttytype</STRONG>. This is not
part of X/Open Curses, but is assumed by some applications.
- Other implementions may not declare the capability name arrays. Some
+ Other implementions may not declare the capability name arrays. Some
provide them without declaring them. X/Open does not specify them.
Extended terminal capability names, e.g., as defined by <STRONG>tic</STRONG> <STRONG>-x</STRONG>, are not
@@ -499,14 +527,14 @@
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Output-buffering">Output buffering</a></H3><PRE>
- Older versions of <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> assumed that the file descriptor passed to
+ Older versions of <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> assumed that the file descriptor passed to
<STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> from <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> or <STRONG>newterm</STRONG> uses buffered I/O, and would write to
- the corresponding stream. In addition to the limitation that the ter-
- minal was left in block-buffered mode on exit (like System V curses),
- it was problematic because <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> did not allow a reliable way to
+ the corresponding stream. In addition to the limitation that the ter-
+ minal was left in block-buffered mode on exit (like System V curses),
+ it was problematic because <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> did not allow a reliable way to
cleanup on receiving SIGTSTP.
- The current version (ncurses6) uses output buffers managed directly by
+ The current version (ncurses6) uses output buffers managed directly by
<STRONG>ncurses</STRONG>. Some of the low-level functions described in this manual page
write to the standard output. They are not signal-safe. The high-lev-
el functions in <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> use alternate versions of these functions using
@@ -515,70 +543,71 @@
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Function-prototypes">Function prototypes</a></H3><PRE>
The X/Open Curses prototypes are based on the SVr4 curses header decla-
- rations, which were defined at the same time the C language was first
+ rations, which were defined at the same time the C language was first
standardized in the late 1980s.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> X/Open Curses uses <STRONG>const</STRONG> less effectively than a later design
- might, in some cases applying it needlessly to values are already
- constant, and in most cases overlooking parameters which normally
- would use <STRONG>const</STRONG>. Using constant parameters for functions which do
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> X/Open Curses uses <STRONG>const</STRONG> less effectively than a later design
+ might, in some cases applying it needlessly to values are already
+ constant, and in most cases overlooking parameters which normally
+ would use <STRONG>const</STRONG>. Using constant parameters for functions which do
not use <STRONG>const</STRONG> may prevent the program from compiling. On the other
hand, <EM>writable</EM> <EM>strings</EM> are an obsolescent feature.
- As an extension, this implementation can be configured to change
- the function prototypes to use the <STRONG>const</STRONG> keyword. The ncurses ABI
+ As an extension, this implementation can be configured to change
+ the function prototypes to use the <STRONG>const</STRONG> keyword. The ncurses ABI
6 enables this feature by default.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> X/Open Curses prototypes <STRONG>tparm</STRONG> with a fixed number of parameters,
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> X/Open Curses prototypes <STRONG>tparm</STRONG> with a fixed number of parameters,
rather than a variable argument list.
- This implementation uses a variable argument list, but can be con-
- figured to use the fixed-parameter list. Portable applications
- should provide 9 parameters after the format; zeroes are fine for
+ This implementation uses a variable argument list, but can be con-
+ figured to use the fixed-parameter list. Portable applications
+ should provide 9 parameters after the format; zeroes are fine for
this purpose.
- In response to review comments by Thomas E. Dickey, X/Open Curses
+ In response to review comments by Thomas E. Dickey, X/Open Curses
Issue 7 proposed the <STRONG>tiparm</STRONG> function in mid-2009.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Special-TERM-treatment">Special TERM treatment</a></H3><PRE>
If configured to use the terminal-driver, e.g., for the MinGW port,
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> interprets a missing/empty TERM variable as the special
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> interprets a missing/empty TERM variable as the special
value "unknown".
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> allows explicit use of the the windows console driver by
- checking if $TERM is set to "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> allows explicit use of the the windows console driver by
+ checking if $TERM is set to "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that
string.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Other-portability-issues">Other portability issues</a></H3><PRE>
- In System V Release 4, <STRONG>set_curterm</STRONG> has an <STRONG>int</STRONG> return type and returns
+ In System V Release 4, <STRONG>set_curterm</STRONG> has an <STRONG>int</STRONG> return type and returns
<STRONG>OK</STRONG> or <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>. We have chosen to implement the X/Open Curses semantics.
- In System V Release 4, the third argument of <STRONG>tputs</STRONG> has the type <STRONG>int</STRONG>
+ In System V Release 4, the third argument of <STRONG>tputs</STRONG> has the type <STRONG>int</STRONG>
<STRONG>(*putc)(char)</STRONG>.
- At least one implementation of X/Open Curses (Solaris) returns a value
- other than <STRONG>OK</STRONG>/<STRONG>ERR</STRONG> from <STRONG>tputs</STRONG>. That returns the length of the string,
+ At least one implementation of X/Open Curses (Solaris) returns a value
+ other than <STRONG>OK</STRONG>/<STRONG>ERR</STRONG> from <STRONG>tputs</STRONG>. That returns the length of the string,
and does no error-checking.
- X/Open notes that after calling <STRONG>mvcur</STRONG>, the curses state may not match
+ X/Open notes that after calling <STRONG>mvcur</STRONG>, the curses state may not match
the actual terminal state, and that an application should touch and re-
fresh the window before resuming normal curses calls. Both <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> and
- System V Release 4 curses implement <STRONG>mvcur</STRONG> using the SCREEN data allo-
- cated in either <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> or <STRONG>newterm</STRONG>. So though it is documented as a
- terminfo function, <STRONG>mvcur</STRONG> is really a curses function which is not well
+ System V Release 4 curses implement <STRONG>mvcur</STRONG> using the SCREEN data allo-
+ cated in either <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> or <STRONG>newterm</STRONG>. So though it is documented as a
+ terminfo function, <STRONG>mvcur</STRONG> is really a curses function which is not well
specified.
- X/Open states that the old location must be given for <STRONG>mvcur</STRONG>. This im-
- plementation allows the caller to use -1's for the old ordinates. In
+ X/Open states that the old location must be given for <STRONG>mvcur</STRONG>. This im-
+ plementation allows the caller to use -1's for the old ordinates. In
that case, the old location is unknown.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_initscr.3x.html">curs_initscr(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_kernel.3x.html">curs_kernel(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_termcap.3x.html">curs_termcap(3x)</A></STRONG>,
- <STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="term_variables.3x.html">term_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>putc(3)</STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
+ <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_initscr.3x.html">curs_initscr(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_kernel.3x.html">curs_kernel(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_memleaks.3x.html">curs_memleaks(3x)</A></STRONG>,
+ <STRONG><A HREF="curs_termcap.3x.html">curs_termcap(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="term_variables.3x.html">term_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>putc(3)</STRONG>, <STRONG>ter-</STRONG>
+ <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">minfo(5)</A></STRONG>
@@ -596,6 +625,7 @@
<li><a href="#h3-Output-Functions">Output Functions</a></li>
<li><a href="#h3-Terminal-Capability-Functions">Terminal Capability Functions</a></li>
<li><a href="#h3-Terminal-Capability-Names">Terminal Capability Names</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-Releasing-Memory">Releasing Memory</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a>
Index: doc/html/man/form.3x.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/form.3x.html 2021-12-25 22:12:46.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/form.3x.html 2022-01-02 00:19:52.000000000 +0000
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG> and related pages whose names begin "form_" for detailed
descriptions of the entry points.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
Index: doc/html/man/infocmp.1m.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/infocmp.1m.html 2021-12-25 22:12:47.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/infocmp.1m.html 2022-01-02 00:19:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/tctest.html
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a></H2><PRE>
Index: doc/html/man/infotocap.1m.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/infotocap.1m.html 2021-12-25 22:12:47.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/infotocap.1m.html 2022-01-02 00:19:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a></H2><PRE>
Index: doc/html/man/menu.3x.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/menu.3x.html 2021-12-25 22:12:47.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/menu.3x.html 2022-01-02 00:19:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG> and related pages whose names begin "menu_" for detailed
descriptions of the entry points.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
Index: doc/html/man/ncurses.3x.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/ncurses.3x.html 2021-12-26 00:04:56.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/ncurses.3x.html 2022-01-02 00:19:55.000000000 +0000
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization.
This implementation is "new curses" (ncurses) and is the approved
replacement for 4.4BSD classic curses, which has been discontinued.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
The <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> library emulates the curses library of System V Release 4
UNIX, and XPG4 (X/Open Portability Guide) curses (also known as XSI
Index: doc/html/man/ncurses6-config.1.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/ncurses6-config.1.html 2021-12-25 22:12:48.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/ncurses6-config.1.html 2022-01-02 00:19:55.000000000 +0000
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
Index: doc/html/man/panel.3x.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/panel.3x.html 2021-12-25 22:12:48.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/panel.3x.html 2022-01-02 00:19:55.000000000 +0000
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>,
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a></H2><PRE>
Index: doc/html/man/tabs.1.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/tabs.1.html 2021-12-25 22:12:48.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/tabs.1.html 2022-01-02 00:19:55.000000000 +0000
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
Index: doc/html/man/terminfo.5.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/terminfo.5.html 2021-12-25 22:12:49.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/terminfo.5.html 2022-01-02 00:19:56.000000000 +0000
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
have, by specifying how to perform screen operations, and by specifying
padding requirements and initialization sequences.
- This manual describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This manual describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Terminfo-Entry-Syntax">Terminfo Entry Syntax</a></H3><PRE>
Index: doc/html/man/tic.1m.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/tic.1m.html 2021-12-25 22:12:50.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/tic.1m.html 2022-01-02 00:19:56.000000000 +0000
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@
<STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>,
<STRONG><A HREF="term.5.html">term(5)</A></STRONG>. <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>. <STRONG><A HREF="user_caps.5.html">user_caps(5)</A></STRONG>.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a></H2><PRE>
Index: doc/html/man/toe.1m.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/toe.1m.html 2021-12-25 22:12:50.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/toe.1m.html 2022-01-02 00:19:56.000000000 +0000
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@
<STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>,
<STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
Index: doc/html/man/tput.1.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/tput.1.html 2021-12-26 00:04:56.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/tput.1.html 2022-01-02 00:19:56.000000000 +0000
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="clear.1.html">clear(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>stty(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tabs.1.html">tabs(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_termcap.3x.html">curs_termcap(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
Index: doc/html/man/tset.1.html
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/doc/html/man/tset.1.html 2021-12-26 00:04:57.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/doc/html/man/tset.1.html 2022-01-02 00:19:56.000000000 +0000
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@
<STRONG>csh(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG>sh(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG>stty(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">curs_terminfo(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>tty(4)</STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>,
<STRONG>ttys(5)</STRONG>, <STRONG>environ(7)</STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220101).
Index: man/curs_termcap.3x
Prereq: 1.52
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/man/curs_termcap.3x 2021-12-25 21:31:00.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/man/curs_termcap.3x 2022-01-01 23:49:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey *
.\" Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
.\" *
.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a *
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" authorization. *
.\"***************************************************************************
.\"
-.\" $Id: curs_termcap.3x,v 1.52 2021/12/25 21:31:00 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_termcap.3x,v 1.55 2022/01/01 23:49:07 tom Exp $
.TH curs_termcap 3X ""
.ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
.el .ds `` ``
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
Thus, they
can only be used to query the capabilities of entries for which a
terminfo entry has been compiled.
-.SS INITIALIZATION
+.SS Initialization
.PP
The \fBtgetent\fP routine loads the entry for \fIname\fP.
It returns:
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
description is marked with the \fIgeneric\fP capability,
or if the terminal description has cursor-addressing.
.RE
-.SS CAPABILITY VALUES
+.SS Capability Values
.PP
The \fBtgetflag\fP routine gets the boolean entry for \fIid\fP,
or zero if it is not available.
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
\fBtgetflag\fP,
\fBtgetnum\fP and
\fBtgetstr\fP are compared in lookups.
-.SS FORMATTING CAPABILITIES
+.SS Formatting Capabilities
.PP
The \fBtgoto\fP routine expands the given capability using the parameters.
.bP
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
The \fBtputs\fP routine is described on the \fBcurs_terminfo\fP(3X) manual
page.
It can retrieve capabilities by either termcap or terminfo name.
-.SS GLOBAL VARIABLES
+.SS Global Variables
.PP
The variables
\fBPC\fP,
@@ -197,6 +197,30 @@
\fBBC\fP is used in the \fBtgoto\fP emulation.
The variable \fBospeed\fP is set by ncurses in a system-specific coding
to reflect the terminal speed.
+.SS Releasing Memory
+The termcap functions provide no means for freeing memory,
+because legacy termcap implementations used only the buffer
+areas provided by the caller via \fBtgetent\fP and \fBtgetstr\fP.
+Those buffers are unused in terminfo.
+.PP
+On the other hand, terminfo allocates memory.
+It uses \fBsetupterm\fP to retrieve the data used by \fBtgetent\fP
+and the functions which return capability values such as \fBtgetstr\fP.
+One could use
+.sp
+ \fBdel_curterm(cur_term);\fP
+.sp
+.PP
+to free this memory, but there is an additional complication with ncurses.
+It uses a fixed-size \fIpool\fP of storage locations,
+one per setting of the \fBTERM\fP variable when \fBtgetent\fP is called.
+The \fBscreen\fP(1) program relies upon this arrangement,
+to improve its performance.
+.PP
+An application which uses only the low-level termcap functions could
+free the memory using \fBdel_curterm\fP,
+because the pool is freed using other functions
+(see \fBcurs_memleaks\fP(3X)).
.
.SH RETURN VALUE
Except where explicitly noted,
Index: man/curs_terminfo.3x
Prereq: 1.79
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/man/curs_terminfo.3x 2021-12-25 21:34:58.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/man/curs_terminfo.3x 2022-01-01 21:50:06.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey *
.\" Copyright 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
.\" *
.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a *
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" authorization. *
.\"***************************************************************************
.\"
-.\" $Id: curs_terminfo.3x,v 1.79 2021/12/25 21:34:58 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_terminfo.3x,v 1.80 2022/01/01 21:50:06 tom Exp $
.TH curs_terminfo 3X ""
.ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
.el .ds `` ``
@@ -407,6 +407,32 @@
.br
\fBconst char *strnames[]\fP, \fB*strcodes[]\fP, \fB*strfnames[]\fP
.RE
+.\" ***************************************************************************
+.SS Releasing Memory
+Each successful call to \fBsetupterm\fP allocates memory to hold the terminal
+description. As a side-effect, it sets \fBcur_term\fP to point to this memory.
+If an application calls
+.sp
+ \fBdel_curterm(cur_term);\fP
+.sp
+the memory will be freed.
+.PP
+The formatting functions \fBtparm\fP and \fBtiparm\fP extend the storage
+allocated by \fBsetupterm\fP:
+.bP
+the \*(``static\*('' terminfo variables [a-z].
+Before ncurses 6.3, those were shared by all screens.
+With ncurses 6.3, those are allocated per screen.
+See \fBterminfo\fP(\*n) for details.
+.bP
+to improve performance, ncurses 6.3 caches the result of analyzing terminfo
+strings for their parameter types.
+That is stored as a binary tree referenced from the \fBTERMINAL\fP structure.
+.PP
+The higher-level \fBinitscr\fP and \fBnewterm\fP functions use \fBsetupterm\fP.
+Normally they do not free this memory, but it is possible to do that using
+the \fBdelscreen\fP(3X) function.
+.\" ***************************************************************************
.SH RETURN VALUE
Routines that return an integer return \fBERR\fP upon failure and \fBOK\fP
(SVr4 only specifies \*(``an integer value other than \fBERR\fP\*('')
@@ -675,6 +701,7 @@
\fBcurses\fP(3X),
\fBcurs_initscr\fP(3X),
\fBcurs_kernel\fP(3X),
+\fBcurs_memleaks\fP(3X),
\fBcurs_termcap\fP(3X),
\fBcurs_variables\fP(3X),
\fBterm_variables\fP(3X),
Index: package/debian-mingw/changelog
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/package/debian-mingw/changelog 2021-12-24 20:26:19.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/package/debian-mingw/changelog 2022-01-01 11:46:49.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-ncurses6 (6.3+20211225) unstable; urgency=low
+ncurses6 (6.3+20220101) unstable; urgency=low
* latest weekly patch
- -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:26:19 -0500
+ -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> Sat, 01 Jan 2022 06:46:49 -0500
ncurses6 (5.9-20131005) unstable; urgency=low
Index: package/debian-mingw/copyright
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/package/debian-mingw/copyright 2021-01-01 09:54:30.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/package/debian-mingw/copyright 2022-01-02 00:28:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Files: *
-Copyright: 2017-2020,2021 by Thomas E. Dickey
+Copyright: 2017-2021,2022 by Thomas E. Dickey
Copyright: 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Licence: X11
Index: package/debian-mingw64/changelog
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/package/debian-mingw64/changelog 2021-12-24 20:26:19.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/package/debian-mingw64/changelog 2022-01-01 11:46:49.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-ncurses6 (6.3+20211225) unstable; urgency=low
+ncurses6 (6.3+20220101) unstable; urgency=low
* latest weekly patch
- -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:26:19 -0500
+ -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> Sat, 01 Jan 2022 06:46:49 -0500
ncurses6 (5.9-20131005) unstable; urgency=low
Index: package/debian-mingw64/copyright
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/package/debian-mingw64/copyright 2021-01-01 09:54:30.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/package/debian-mingw64/copyright 2022-01-02 00:28:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Files: *
-Copyright: 2017-2020,2021 by Thomas E. Dickey
+Copyright: 2017-2021,2022 by Thomas E. Dickey
Copyright: 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Licence: X11
Index: package/debian/changelog
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/package/debian/changelog 2021-12-24 20:26:19.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/package/debian/changelog 2022-01-01 11:46:49.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-ncurses6 (6.3+20211225) unstable; urgency=low
+ncurses6 (6.3+20220101) unstable; urgency=low
* latest weekly patch
- -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:26:19 -0500
+ -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> Sat, 01 Jan 2022 06:46:49 -0500
ncurses6 (5.9-20120608) unstable; urgency=low
Index: package/debian/copyright
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/package/debian/copyright 2021-01-01 09:54:30.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/package/debian/copyright 2022-01-02 00:28:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Files: *
-Copyright: 2017-2020,2021 by Thomas E. Dickey
+Copyright: 2017-2021,2022 by Thomas E. Dickey
Copyright: 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Licence: X11
Index: package/mingw-ncurses.nsi
Prereq: 1.499
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/package/mingw-ncurses.nsi 2021-12-24 20:26:19.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/package/mingw-ncurses.nsi 2022-01-01 11:46:49.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-; $Id: mingw-ncurses.nsi,v 1.499 2021/12/24 20:26:19 tom Exp $
+; $Id: mingw-ncurses.nsi,v 1.500 2022/01/01 11:46:49 tom Exp $
; TODO add examples
; TODO bump ABI to 6
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
!define VERSION_MAJOR "6"
!define VERSION_MINOR "3"
-!define VERSION_YYYY "2021"
-!define VERSION_MMDD "1225"
+!define VERSION_YYYY "2022"
+!define VERSION_MMDD "0101"
!define VERSION_PATCH ${VERSION_YYYY}${VERSION_MMDD}
!define MY_ABI "5"
Index: package/mingw-ncurses.spec
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/package/mingw-ncurses.spec 2021-12-24 20:26:19.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/package/mingw-ncurses.spec 2022-01-01 11:46:49.000000000 +0000
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
Summary: shared libraries for terminal handling
Name: mingw32-ncurses6
Version: 6.3
-Release: 20211225
+Release: 20220101
License: X11
Group: Development/Libraries
Source: ncurses-%{version}-%{release}.tgz
Index: package/ncurses.spec
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/package/ncurses.spec 2021-12-24 20:26:19.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/package/ncurses.spec 2022-01-01 11:46:49.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Summary: shared libraries for terminal handling
Name: ncurses6
Version: 6.3
-Release: 20211225
+Release: 20220101
License: X11
Group: Development/Libraries
Source: ncurses-%{version}-%{release}.tgz
Index: package/ncursest.spec
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/package/ncursest.spec 2021-12-24 20:26:19.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/package/ncursest.spec 2022-01-01 11:46:49.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Summary: Curses library with POSIX thread support.
Name: ncursest6
Version: 6.3
-Release: 20211225
+Release: 20220101
License: X11
Group: Development/Libraries
Source: ncurses-%{version}-%{release}.tgz
Index: test/package/debian-mingw/copyright
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/test/package/debian-mingw/copyright 2021-01-01 09:54:30.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/test/package/debian-mingw/copyright 2022-01-02 00:28:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Files: *
-Copyright: 2017-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey
+Copyright: 2017-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey
Copyright: 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Licence: X11
Index: test/package/debian-mingw64/copyright
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/test/package/debian-mingw64/copyright 2021-01-01 09:54:30.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/test/package/debian-mingw64/copyright 2022-01-02 00:28:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Files: *
-Copyright: 2017-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey
+Copyright: 2017-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey
Copyright: 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Licence: X11
Index: test/package/debian/copyright
--- ncurses-6.3-20211225+/test/package/debian/copyright 2021-01-01 09:54:30.000000000 +0000
+++ ncurses-6.3-20220101/test/package/debian/copyright 2022-01-02 00:28:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Files: *
-Copyright: 2017-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey
+Copyright: 2017-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey
Copyright: 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Licence: X11
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