Comment # 8 on bug 1179210 from Tom de Vries

(In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #7)
> You are aware that Leap 42.3 is out of scope? I guess you are, therefore I'd
> like to know why are you using Leap 42.3.
> 

That's one of the configurations our development project devel:gcc tests
against.

> And as Leap 42.3 is based on SLE-12 you might use the latest ncurses package
> from SLE-12 as there are some security fixes as well.  Those had not reached
> the Leap 42.X as not maintained anymore

Reproduced using package version:
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$ zypper info libncurses5
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


Information for package libncurses5:
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Repository     : SLE 12 SP5 Updates              
Name           : libncurses5                     
Version        : 5.9-72.1                        
Arch           : x86_64                          
Vendor         : SUSE LLC <https://www.suse.com/>
Support Level  : Level 3                         
Installed Size : 1.0 MiB                         
Installed      : Yes (automatically)             
Status         : up-to-date                      
Source package : ncurses-5.9-72.1.src            
Summary        : The New curses Libraries        
Description    :                                 
    The ncurses library is used by the most curses based terminal
    applications for controling its output and input to the screen.

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on SLE-12SP5:
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$ gcc test.c /lib64/libncursesw.so.5 -g
$ ldd a.out
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff93daa000)
        libncursesw.so.5 => /lib64/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fb6a779f000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb6a73fa000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fb6a71f6000)
        libtinfo.so.5 => /lib64/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fb6a6fc2000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb6a79d8000)
$ ./a.out; echo $?
2
...

That is, there is no segfault, but the same underlying problem is there.