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From: mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xmh incorporate bug under sos4.1?
Message-ID: <1990Jul15.030337.1603@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 15 Jul 90 03:03:37 GMT
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In article <9007122144.AA02591@excess.lcs.mit.edu> converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU writes:
>> Using Xmh to incorporate mail, the table of
>> contents adds an extra digit to the message
>> number.  

>This is due to a bug in gcc 1.38 which affects xmh.

Actually I think Donna meant gcc 1.37.  Hopefully this bug should be fixed
in 1.38 as I reported it to bug-gcc when I first noticed it.

Here is the workaround I use in the meantime.

*** tocutil.c~	Fri Dec 15 15:20:04 1989
--- tocutil.c	Tue Apr  3 17:40:22 1990
***************
*** 576,582 ****
      msg->toc = toc;
      msg->buf = XtNewString(ptr);
      (void)sprintf(str, "%4d", msgid);
!     for (i=0; i<4 ; i++) msg->buf[i] = str[i];
      msg->buf[MARKPOS] = ' ';
      msg->msgid = msgid;
      msg->position = toc->lastPos;
--- 576,582 ----
      msg->toc = toc;
      msg->buf = XtNewString(ptr);
      (void)sprintf(str, "%4d", msgid);
!     for (i=4; i-- > 0 ;) msg->buf[i] = str[i];
      msg->buf[MARKPOS] = ' ';
      msg->msgid = msgid;
      msg->position = toc->lastPos;

cheers
mark