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From: wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Think C 4.0 Bugs
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Date: 10 Sep 89 19:47:59 GMT
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	This is a public apology.  All of the bugs that I was experiencing
with Think C 4.0, including:

	strncmp("This", "This is a", 4);

were due to the fact that Think C 4.0 uses size_t for n in
strncmp(str1,str2,n);  size_t is a long, so:

	strncmp("This", "This is a", 4L);

works correctly.  In retrospect, I think that I am happy with this, but
it makes the confusion between 16 bit integers and long string lengths
more acute.  After I included the correct template files, e.g. <string.h>,
it was easy to catch all the mistakes, and everything started working
again.  I love that debugger too.

Bill Pearson