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From: woju@neon.UUCP (Wolfgang Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: WMAIL (ST core dumps)
Message-ID: <1068@neon.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 90 19:04:45 GMT
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SA44%liverpool.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Kevin Maguire) writes:

>The recently posted wmail needs #include <stdlib.h> in all files
>that use malloc. Otherwise it core dumps on the ST as the default of
>returning an int is not large enough. Same old story ;-(
>Could PC users please check this sort of thing before posting :-(
>Use as many includes and casts as possible the ST barfs otherwise.
>The documentation said that it had
>been run through lint. Surely lint would find this error????

Could someone POST the LINT for MINIX ST ?

>Anyway wmail works (or seems to) with those patches.
>I also added the includes to the umail files that used malloc but
>that didn't stop it core dumping. I seem to remember an array of strings
>in the old version of umail that was terminated by a zero, which needed
>to be changed to a (char *)0 to get it working on the ST, I'll investigate.
>I think it was in umheader.c, an array of the valid header lines???

Greetings

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