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From: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: cc dumps core on this program why?
Message-ID: <26CD4D1A.107@marob.masa.com>
Date: 18 Aug 90 14:13:45 GMT
References: <1990Aug17.155435.24205@d.cs.okstate.edu>
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klarich@d.cs.okstate.edu (KLARICH TERRY JAME) writes:

>I am running xenix 2.3.2 for 386.  I have installed the lng085 update.
>Consider this program.  Why does cc dump core?
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <values.h>
>
>main()
>{
>double d;
> d = MAXDOUBLE;
>}

I tried this on 2.3.1, 2.3.2, and 2.3.3; 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 both have the
lng085 patch.  None of them dump core.  Here's the script from 2.3.2:

Script started [typescript] at Sat Aug 18 10:05:03 1990
daveh$ cat >c.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <values.h>
main()
{
double d;
d = MAXDOUBLE;
}
daveh$ cc c.c
c.c
daveh$ a.out
daveh$ 
Script ended [typescript] at Sat Aug 18 10:05:28 1990

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