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OK - This all seems to stem from the fact that, for some unknown
reason, the screen termcap has this for a key definition:

kl=^@

kl is the termcap entry for the left arrow key and we are being told
that it will be the Null character (ascii 0).  Syntactically, this is
a valid thing to do but since the kl termcap entry is supposed to be a
string... well, that does not work well with C style strings.  We end
up with a length of 0 which will cause us to negative index a
character array a couple of times at the end of add_key_sequence().
This would cause random clobbering of an entry in the key array for
the keymap.  The negative indexing meant the bug was very sensitive to
the stack layout - hence things "working" when the DEBUG version was
built.  This bug has been around for a long time, I think the changes
with wcurses forced it out of hiding.

The attached patch resolves the problem for me...

-- 
Brett Lymn

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Index: getch.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/lib/libcurses/getch.c,v
retrieving revision 1.48
diff -u -r1.48 getch.c
--- getch.c	28 May 2007 15:01:55 -0000	1.48
+++ getch.c	6 Jul 2007 14:09:17 -0000
@@ -396,6 +396,19 @@
 					 * base keymap. */
 	length = (int) strlen(sequence);
 
+	/*
+	 * OK - we really should never get a zero length string here, either
+	 * the termcap entry is there and it has a value or we are not called
+	 * at all.  Unfortunately, if someone assigns a termcap string to the
+	 * ^@ value we get passed a null string which messes up our length.
+	 * So, if we get a null string then just insert a leaf value in
+	 * the 0th char position of the root keymap.  Note that we are
+	 * totally screwed if someone terminates a multichar sequence
+	 * with ^@... oh well.
+	 */
+	if (length == 0)
+		length = 1;
+
 	for (j = 0; j < length - 1; j++) {
 		  /* add the entry to the struct */
 		tmp_key = add_new_key(current, sequence[j], KEYMAP_MULTI, 0);

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