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From: pgd@bbt.se (P.Garbha)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix software and USSR
Message-ID: <1990Sep30.085132.349@bbt.se>
Date: 30 Sep 90 08:51:32 GMT
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In article <4108@rtifs1.UUCP> trt@rti.rti.org (Thomas Truscott) writes:
>
>Just a thought:  if your version of crypt.c has line
>that declares "L" and "R" to be arrays of size 32,
>your version is depending on L and R being allocated
>adjacent to each other.  This is an ancient bug that
>no one ever bothers to fix.
>
>Try instead:
>	char L[64];
>	#define R (L+32)
>That might fix things.  Then again, maybe not.
>
>	Tom Truscott

YES!!

That fixes the bug so that crypt is compilable with gcc for an i386