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From: muller@src.dec.com (Eric Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3
Subject: SRC-M3 1.6: bug in ParseParams.GetParameter
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.175313.6737@src.dec.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 01:53:13 GMT
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Reply-To: muller@src.dec.com (Eric Muller)
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Norman Ramsey reported that ParseParams.GetParameter does not
behave as decribed in the interface:

  Returns NIL if num >= NumParameters.

Actually, a random action is taken in that case, which may even core
dump the program.

Fixed for the next release. Thanks to Norman for reporting the bug.

-- 
Eric.