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From: davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  3.2 C compiler bug
Message-ID: <59726@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 9 May 90 20:38:55 GMT
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In article <9005071321.AA27323@> lmo@lsr-vax.UUCP ("Lance M. Optican - LMO") writes:
>There is a bug in the Irix C-compiler:
[ ]
>The following program prints zero but it should print 1.
>If you modify the program so that foo() does not return a struct it works
>as expected.
[ ]
>This seems to be a problem with the function prototyping.  If you
>change to the old-fashioned 'C' convention, the problem goes away:

Thanks for the report. 

The bug has been fixed for the release after 3.2.

Regards,
[ David B. Anderson  Silicon Graphics  (415)335-1548  davea@sgi.com ]
[``What can go wrong?''                          --Calvin and Hobbes]