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From: mdm@cocktrice.UUCP (Mike Mitchell)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Cnews on System V/AT: "expression causes compiler loop"
Summary: Here is a fix
Message-ID: <116@cocktrice.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 89 14:43:53 GMT
References: <3056@splut.conmicro.com>
Followup-To: comp.unix.microport
Organization: Mike's Playground, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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In article <3056@splut.conmicro.com>, jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
> 
> I'm trying to install C news, at the patchlevel 7/13 Nov 1989 level, on
> my System V/AT 2.4 system. Trying to compile relay/hdrdefs.c, I get:
> 
> The relevant code is:
> #ifndef offsetof
> #define offsetof(type, mem) ((char *)&((type *)NULL)->mem - (char *)NULL)
> #endif
> 
> Any ideas about how to simplify this one? Am I the only person to run
> into this?
> 

#ifndef	offsetof
#define offsetof(type, mem) (int)&(((type *)0)->(mem))
#endif

Also be sure that you compile relaynews large model. It has the tendancy
to blow up on really huge incoming batches in small model. Use the dbz
routines in the contribution directory.

Cnews operates fairly well on one of these Uport '286 things.

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