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From: herwin@pro-novapple.cts.com (Harry Erwin)
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Subject: Orca C 1.1 Bugs
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Date: 25 Jan 91 12:40:37 GMT
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I was asked for a list of bugs in Orca C 1.1 -- at least the ones that I have
found.
1.  lseek is miscoded.  It can be patched, but you have to know the parameters
to the GSOS seek call.  Currently it does an LDA 08, when it should do a LDA
from the stack.
2.  If j is a long automatic variable, j++ and j-- are mishandled.  The stack
gets corrupted.  Avoid.
Those are the two bugs I've found.  I understand other people have found a few
other problems.  Mike W. knows about these, but I have no idea when he will be
getting back to Orca C.  I use Orca C a lot to port UNIX C code, and it works
pretty well except for the lack of a curses library.  I've been working on
that for some time...  I also use Orca C to port MS-DOS C programs.
Harry Erwin   -->Remember, no good deed goes unpunished...
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