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From: bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (Bruce W. Mohler)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: NetHack 3.0 compile error in objnam.c(160)
Summary: Here's the fix
Keywords: NetHack 3.0 objnam.c
Message-ID: <130@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 29 Jul 89 03:57:34 GMT
References: <129@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>
Organization: Pacific*Bell, San Diego, CA
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In article <129@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>, bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (Bruce W. Mohler) writes:
> Environment: Compaq 386/20 running Xenix 2.3.1 with 2.2 Dev Sys
> 
> Compiling NetHack 3.0 yields a compile-time error in the
> file objnam.c line 160.  This is the message:
> 
> 	objnam.c(160) func: not a function
> 
> This is the function in question:
> 

Boy, talk about *good* response time!  It was only an hour
or two after I'd submitted my article that Janet Walz 
(walz@mimsy.umd.edu) was back to me with a fix!  (Here it is:)

 -=- As multiple other people running Xenix have observed, func is a function
 -=- pointer, not a function, which is fine with ANSI compilers and pcc but not
 -=- Xenix.  Use
 -=- 	str = (*func)(obj);
 -=- 
 -=- Thanks again, Janet!

Maybe SCO will have this fixed in their new Dev System...
-- 
Bruce W. Mohler
Systems Programmer (aka Staff Analyst)
bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu
voice: 619/586-2218