Curses bug in 2.4

[Michael J. Young]

I've just noticed an anomaly in the tgetstr() function in the System V/AT
2.4 curses.  Not knowing the old termcap interface, I'm not sure if this
is a bug or what.

Based on the way elm 1.5 and 2.1 use this function, it appears to me that
the interface to tgetstr() is supposed to be:

char *tgetstr(id, area)
char *id;
char **area;

Elm uses tgetstr as follows:

	result = tgetstr ("id", &ptr);

Under the 2.3 curses, ptr is left unchanged upon returning from the function.
Under the 2.4 (large model) curses, ptr seems to be overwritten by ascii
text (looks like terminfo escape sequences).  It looks like the new
curses expects to see something like:

char *tgetstr (id, area)
char *id;
char *area;
     ^ note the missing *

What gives?
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