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From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: RISKYy DEC/ULTIRX/X
Message-ID: <18985@paperboy.OSF.ORG>
Date: 14 Feb 91 14:36:38 GMT
References: <190*diane@drao.nrc.ca> <11140@adobe.UUCP>
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asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente) writes:
|> In article <190*diane@drao.nrc.ca> diane@drao.nrc.ca (Diane Parchomchuk) writes:
|> >Are X intrinsic routines and structures from X written to be robust enough
|> >to adhere to the RISC architecture requirements?
|> 
|> Yes.  I'm not so sure about Motif however; 1.0 at least tends to spray
|> "Fixing unaligned accesses" all over the place.

Ahem.  Turned out to be a bug in the Ultrix regular expression
routines (regcmp or regex; I forget which).  Said bug was fixed in
Ultrix 4.0 (if you don't have that, rebuild to use re_comp and re_exec
instead).
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Systems Engineering, OSF		uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
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