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From: sef@sco.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Microsoft C offsets BUG in 386's
Message-ID: <1991Feb24.025801.27275@kithrup.COM>
Date: 24 Feb 91 02:58:01 GMT
References: <1991Feb23.175948.842@hq.demos.su>
Sender: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Reply-To: sef@sco.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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In article <1991Feb23.175948.842@hq.demos.su> ache@hq.demos.su (Andrew A. Chernov) writes:
>Hi, folks!
>I've found Microsoft C compiler bug in computation offsets in
>structures on my XENIX/386 v2.3.3:

That is the OS version.  You are using the 2.3.0 DS, I suspect.
I suspect this because I fixed this bug for teh 2.3.1 (and unix)
devsys.  If you upgrade, you get a better compiler, including
this bug fix.  (The 2.3.0 msc compiler is 4.5ish; the 2.3.1 and
3.2 and later compilers are 5.1, the same version as the '286
compiler.)

Before you start flaming a product, *any product*, try to see
if there is a cheap/free upgrade to a version that does not have
the bug.  The 2.3.1 ds upgrade qualifies as that.  Note that,
for the 2.3.0 ds, there is an SLS (lng055, I believe) which
consists of little else besides the compiler, since the 4.5ish
compiler received so many complaints.

And, yes, this was written as an SCO employee.  That's why the
From: and Reply-to: lines say what they say.

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