aspell aborts with --size less than 10

[David Huggins-Daines]

Binary package hint: aspell

running "aspell --size=N pipe" for any N less than 10 results in the following:

$ aspell --size=1 pipe
Aborted

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: aspell 0.60.6-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 31 16:16:09 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: aspell

[Ralph Corderoy (ralph-inputplus)]

The code in 10.10 explicitly abort(3)s instead of generating an error.

aspell-0.60.6/lib/find_speller.cpp:
   375 //
   376 // Retrieve size
   377 //
   378 str = config->retrieve("size");
   379 p = str.data.c_str();
   380 if (p[0] == '+' || p[0] == '-' || p[0] == '<' || p[0] == '>') {
   381 b_size.req_type = p[0];
   382 ++p;
   383 } else {
   384 b_size.req_type = '+';
   385 }
   386 if (!asc_isdigit(p[0]) || !asc_isdigit(p[1]) || p[2] != '\0')
   387 abort(); //FIXME: create an error condition here
   388 b_size.requested = atoi(p);
   389 b_size.init();