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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Microsoft C, 5.1 bug???
Message-ID: <1990Jun3.204223.948@druid.uucp>
Date: 3 Jun 90 20:42:23 GMT
References: <90152.034339TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <90152.034339TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET> TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET (Thomas Dwyer III) writes:
>I believe there is a bug in MSC 5.1  The following code demonstrates
>the problem:
> [...]
>the new environment not only has that string, but also a string of
>garbage at the end.  This garbage string ";C_FILE_INFO$$$$AA" (where
>$$$$ = 4 IBM funky characters, ASCII 05, 193, 193, 193) shows up on
>every machine the program was run on (True blue PCs and Zenith 386-30)
>even when recompiled.

No, there is nothing wrong with your code or the compiler.  That stuff
in the environment is put there by C programs for some unstated purpose
of its own.  Just ignore the stuff.

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