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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Re: PC Minix CC
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.193820.15619@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
References: <16438@chopin.udel.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 91 00:38:20 GMT
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In article <16438@chopin.udel.edu> gdtltr@chopin.udel.edu (root@research.bdi.com (Systems Research Supervisor)) writes:
>   Has anyone noticed that (sizeof "any old string") returns 2 for
>any string? Has anyone fixed this?

This is indeed a bug, since "any old string" has the type (char []).  It
probably thinks "any old string" has type (char *), which is incorrect.
However, since ACK cc(1) (the one that comes with PC 1.3 and I think
also 1.5) doesn't come with source, it can't be fixed.

Well, "can't" is too strong.  Apparenty you can *buy* the source from
the people who wrote the compiler.  Has anyone actually done this?
Their address (from Andy's textbook, "Operating Systems: Design and
Implementation", p. xvi):

In North and South America:		In Europe and elsewhere:
UniPress Software			Transmediair Utrecht BV
2025 Lincoln Highway			Melkweg 3
Edison, NJ 08817			3721 RG Bilthoven
USA					Holland
Telephone: (201) 985-8000		Telephone: (30) 78 18 20

And now for a legal question.  If someone *did* buy the source for ACK
CC, and then fixed some bugs (or maybe the original writers have fixed
some bugs?), could the person who bought the source then post the
binaries for the new compiler?

-- 
"Dad, what should I be when I grow up?"
"Honest." -- Robert M. Pirsig, _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence_.

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