Curses: don't iterate through unbound COLORS #369

On DirectColor-capable terminals with the proper terminfo
database in use, COLORS is 2^24. Since the color map is
only 64k entries, this resulted in a segfault. I've
introduced NC::colorCount(), which bounds it by the
previously assumed maximum (and usable range) of 256.

src/curses/window.cpp

@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@
 
 namespace {
 
+// In a DirectColor setup, COLORS as returned by ncurses (via terminfo) can
+// run as high as 2^24. We only work with up to 256.
+int maxColor;
+
 namespace rl {
 
 bool aborted;
@@ -224,9 +228,9 @@ int Color::pairNumber() const
 	else if (!isDefault())
 	{
 		if (!currentBackground())
-			result = (background() + 1) % COLORS;
+			result = (background() + 1) % colorCount();
 		result *= 256;
-		result += foreground() % COLORS;
+		result += foreground() % colorCount();
 
 		assert(result < int(color_pair_map.size()));
 
@@ -385,6 +389,11 @@ void disable()
 
 }
 
+int colorCount()
+{
+  return maxColor;
+}
+
 void initScreen(bool enable_colors, bool enable_mouse)
 {
 	initscr();
@@ -392,13 +401,18 @@ void initScreen(bool enable_colors, bool enable_mouse)
 	{
 		start_color();
 		use_default_colors();
+		maxColor = COLORS;
+		if (maxColor > 256)
+		{
+			maxColor = 256;
+		}
 		color_pair_map.resize(256 * 256, 0);
 
 		// Predefine pairs for colors with transparent background, all the other
 		// ones will be dynamically registered in Color::pairNumber when they're
 		// used.
 		color_pair_counter = 1;
-		for (int fg = 0; fg < COLORS; ++fg, ++color_pair_counter)
+		for (int fg = 0; fg < colorCount(); ++fg, ++color_pair_counter)
 		{
 			init_pair(color_pair_counter, fg, -1);
 			color_pair_map[fg] = color_pair_counter;

src/curses/window.h

@@ -219,6 +219,10 @@ void disable();
 /// @param enable_colors enables colors
 void initScreen(bool enable_colors, bool enable_mouse);
 
+// Get the maximum supported color index (but only once initScreen() has been
+// successfully called). This might be less than the advertised COLORS.
+int colorCount();
+
 /// Pauses the screen (e.g. for running an external command)
 void pauseScreen();
 

src/screens/help.cpp

@@ -424,8 +424,10 @@ void write_bindings(NC::Scrollpad &w)
 	}
 
 	section(w, "", "List of available colors");
-	for (int i = 0; i < COLORS; ++i)
+	for (int i = 0; i < NC::colorCount(); ++i)
+	{
 		w << NC::Color(i, NC::Color::transparent) << i+1 << NC::Color::End << " ";
+	}
 }
 
 }