c++/10269: ncurses function in class causes malloc() syscall to loop infinitly

[fr33z3@sources.redhat.com]

>Number:         10269
>Category:       c++
>Synopsis:       ncurses function in class causes malloc() syscall to loop infinitly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 30 11:56:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tam
>Release:        gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease) and also 3.2.3 20030309 (Debian prerelease)
>Organization:
>Environment:
Debian sarge on i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Libs:
libform.so.5 => /usr/lib/libform.so.5 (0x4001c000)
libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40028000)
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 (0x40067000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x400b0000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400d1000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
>Description:
The Syscall malloc() loops infinitly when it should allocate lets say.. more than 512b of memory (on my system) but allocating only a few bytes works well. It also ran on a similar system to mine using the libncurses.so.4 - so it's either an error in gcc or in libcurses - I don't know for sure...

For further Infos and strange things have a look at the comments in the short c++ source code.
>How-To-Repeat:
g++ -lform -lcurses -o ncursesInClass ncursesInClass.cpp
and run the binary

you can use g++ 2.95 or 3.2 as well to compile.
>Fix:
no idea...
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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