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From: Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton)
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Subject: Re: Sendmailv5.65+IDA problem
Message-ID: <1990Nov18.214705.17591@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 18 Nov 90 21:47:05 GMT
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In article <1990Nov15.110911@ap.co.umist.ac.uk>, jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk
(John Forrest) writes:
|> In article <1990Nov14.215011.4610@comp.vuw.ac.nz>,
|> Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton) writes:
|> |> 
|> |> This could be the same problem that I came against and posted
|> details of
|> |> a few days ago. On our MOREbsd HP boxes there is/was a bug in
|> routine
|> |> doprnt() which is called by printf() and co. The bug is exercise
|> by the
|> |> new version of putline() in util.c
|> |> 
|> |> You can check whether this bug is present in your doprnt() routine
|> by
|> |> the following:
|> |> 
|> |> #include <stdio.h>
|> |> 
|> |> main()
|> |> {
|> |> 	printf("doprnt() is %.0scorrect\n", "NOT ");
|> |> }
|> |> 
|> |> The old version of putline() could be used to further check for
|> the
|> |> prescence of this bug.
|> 
|> This has indeed turned out to be the problem. The old 5.61 putline
|> works fine on
|> our Apollo system, the new one does not. I'm not sure why it has
|> changed, anyway
|> - on a cursorary glance, the expected behaviour seems identical, and
|> I don't
|> believe the new complicated printf's are necessarily more efficient
|> than the
|> previous fputs calls.


I hope someone at HP/Apollo is listening though because there is a bug
in doprnt(). I haven't looked at the efficiency either but the *correct*
answer is not to install the old version of putline() but to fix the bug
in doprnt().I