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From: cfe+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Craig F. Everhart")
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Subject: Re: WP bug on SPARC, new release version?
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Date: 22 Nov 89 14:23:56 GMT
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I have to agree with Guy Harris that the correct thing to do would be to
revoke the idea that wp_DeAllocate should take any of several different
types.  The only thing I can say in defense of the way that it currently
works is that I wrote it long ago, when a relative novice to C and
didn't understand the HC compiler's warnings.  That being said, I've
absorbed Isaac Salzman's change to flush the ``union'' from the
parameter list to make the thing work moderately correctly, but it's a
little late (tape going out this morning) to ``do the right thing'',
implementing wp_DeAllocateSrch/wp_DeAllocatePKs, changing all the calls
everywhere in all andrew code, and updating the documentation.  That
should be done, and maybe if we ever generate another version...

		Craig