PATCH: fix a bug in nosort deduplication

Mikael Magnusson <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:36:42 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.zsh.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Introduced in 49915.

Confusion in pointers could mark the wrong entries in some cases. Make
sure asp is incremented to the correct entry by the outer loop's
'asp++', and don't touch sp at all.

In particular, the third added test was missing the 'foo' entry:

Y01completion.ztst: starting.
--- expected
+++ actual
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 line: {tst }{}
-NO:{foo}
 NO:{bar}
 NO:{baz}
Was testing: nosort dedup with three same-string non-duplicates

---

I have no explanation for why I wrote the code like this, but in my defense it is
very confusing. Wait, is that in my defense?

 Src/Zle/compcore.c      |  8 +++++---
 Test/Y01completion.ztst | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Src/Zle/compcore.c b/Src/Zle/compcore.c
index 465cfae1ae..b6a8dd2350 100644
--- a/Src/Zle/compcore.c
+++ b/Src/Zle/compcore.c
@@ -3287,7 +3287,7 @@ makearray(LinkList l, int type, int flags, int *np, int *nlp, int *llp)
 		if ((*ap)->flags & (CMF_NOLIST | CMF_MULT))
 		    nl++;
 	    }
-	/* used -O nosort or -V, don't sort */
+	/* used -o nosort or -V, don't sort */
 	} else {
 	    /* didn't use -1 or -2, so remove all duplicates (efficient) */
 	    if (!(flags & CGF_UNIQALL) && !(flags & CGF_UNIQCON)) {
@@ -3308,12 +3308,14 @@ makearray(LinkList l, int type, int flags, int *np, int *nlp, int *llp)
 		    } else if (!ap[0]->disp) {
 			/* Mark those, that would show the same string in the list. */
 			for (dup = 0; bp[0] && !(bp[0])->disp &&
-				 !strcmp((*ap)->str, (bp[0])->str); bp = ++sp) {
+				 !strcmp((*ap)->str, (bp[0])->str); bp = ++asp) {
 			    (bp[0])->flags |= CMF_MULT;
 			    dup = 1;
 			}
-			if (dup)
+			if (dup) {
 			    (*ap)->flags |= CMF_FMULT;
+			    asp--;
+			}
 		    }
 		}
 		if (del) {
diff --git a/Test/Y01completion.ztst b/Test/Y01completion.ztst
index 53d49df374..24b679c256 100644
--- a/Test/Y01completion.ztst
+++ b/Test/Y01completion.ztst
@@ -153,6 +153,31 @@ F:regression test workers/51641
 >FI:{file1}
 >FI:{file2}
 
+  comptesteval '_tst() { compadd -V grp -S /a foo bar; compadd -V grp -S /b foo baz }'
+  comptest $'tst \t'
+0:nosort dedup hides same-string non-duplicate matches
+>line: {tst }{}
+>NO:{foo}
+>NO:{bar}
+>NO:{baz}
+
+  comptesteval '_tst() { local disp1=(Foo Bar); compadd -V grp -d disp1 -S /a foo bar; local disp2=(Foo Baz); compadd -V grp -d disp2 -S /b foo baz; }'
+  comptest $'tst \t'
+0:nosort dedup with display strings does not hide same-string non-duplicate matches
+>line: {tst }{}
+>NO:{Foo}
+>NO:{Bar}
+>NO:{Foo}
+>NO:{Baz}
+
+  comptesteval '_tst() { compadd -V grp -S /a foo; compadd -V grp -S /b foo; compadd -V grp -S /c foo; compadd -V grp bar baz }'
+  comptest $'tst \t'
+0:nosort dedup with three same-string non-duplicates
+>line: {tst }{}
+>NO:{foo}
+>NO:{bar}
+>NO:{baz}
+
   # Temporarily modify format set in comptest
   comptesteval 'zstyle -s ":completion:*:descriptions" format oldfmt'
   comptesteval 'zstyle ":completion:*:descriptions" format \
-- 
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