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From: muller@src.dec.com (Eric Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3
Subject: Re: Problems with beta4
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.110533.6138@src.dec.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 19:05:33 GMT
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In article <9102220004.AA28265@cirrus.watson.ibm.com>, Roger Hoover
reports some problems with 1.6beta4:
 
 > 1) builtin_driver_args in m3.c writes into its argument, which
> can be a string constant.  This requires the gcc
> -fwritable-strings flag.  Are writable strings required for the
> target code as well?

I fixed that routine so that it doesn't write into its argument. I am
not sure about generated code, but I would guess that we don't try to
modify it. 

> 2) I've been getting nondeterministic runtime errors from the m3
> compiler.

I haven't seen this (but we don't have Sparcstations). Looks like an
uninitialized variable somewhere, but where ?

Eric.