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From: jp@eiffel.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Sarkis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Eiffel Problems, Problems, Problems
Summary: Please disregard previous correction
Message-ID: <271@eiffel.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 90 20:11:17 GMT
References: <2983@goanna.oz.au> <5983@star.cs.vu.nl> <1933@clyde.concordia.ca> <269@eiffel.UUCP>
Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA
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April's fool is coming early this year. There was one typo in the
previous correction to the correction to the garbage collector
problem. Below is the correct (we hope) fix.

We apologize for the confusion. Flamers have their work cut
out for them.

-- Jean-Pierre Sarkis

jp@eiffel.com
Reply to: eiffel@eiffel.com

Diff between new and old versions of:
   Installation_directory/Eiffel/files/_utility.c

.............................. BEGIN CHANGE ....................
2a3
> #include "_gac.h" 
67c68
< int *c_option (index)
---
> DATUM c_option (index)
70,71c71,77
<    if ((*arg_strings) && (arg_strings [index]))
<       return ( (int *) MakeStr (arg_strings [index]));
---
>    DATPTR strarg;
>    if ((*arg_strings) && (arg_strings [index])) {
>       strarg = (DATPTR)malloc (sizeof(DATPTR));
>       (*strarg) = (DATUM) (MakeStr (arg_strings [index])); /*****/
>       if (gac_option) ONCE(*strarg);
>       return(*strarg);
>    }
73c79
<       return ((int) NULL);
---
>       return ((DATUM) NULL);
.............................. END   CHANGE ....................

The typo was on the line marked /*****/. Everything else was correct.