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+Running PowerTop in Poky in dump mode (with --dump) always ends with a
+segmentation fault.
+
+The cause is: in dump mode, setup_windows() is not invoked so the
+*_window variables, like cstate_window, are still NULL; later in
+main() -> show_cstates(), the functions, like wrefresh(), will trigger
+segfault.
+
+After discussing in PowerTop mailling list, I think the right solution is
+we should stub out the ncurses calls in dump mode.
+
+(The patch was also sent to upstream PowerTop mailling list.)
+
+Signed-off-by Dexuan Cui <dexuan.cui@intel.com>, 2010-08-20
+(this patch is licensed under GPLv2)
+
+--- a/display.c
++++ b/display.c
+@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@
+ static WINDOW *status_bar_window;
+
+ #define print(win, y, x, fmt, args...) do { if (dump) printf(fmt, ## args); else mvwprintw(win, y, x, fmt, ## args); } while (0)
++#define wattrset(win, c) do { if (!dump ) wattrset(win, c); } while (0)
++#define wbkgd(win, c) do { if (!dump ) wbkgd(win, c); } while (0)
++#define werase(win) do { if (!dump ) werase(win); } while (0)
++#define wrefresh(win) do { if (!dump ) wrefresh(win); } while (0)
++#define wattron(win, a) do { if (!dump ) wattron(win, a); } while (0)
++#define wattroff(win, a) do { if (!dump ) wattroff(win, a); } while (0)
+
+ char status_bar_slots[10][40];
+
