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From: hessmann@hal.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann)
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Subject: Re: Bug in SAS C 5.10a ?
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Date: 21 May 91 12:29:05 GMT
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In article <9195@mcshh.hanse.de> hkr@mcshh.hanse.de (Holger Kruse) writes:
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|I think I found a serious bug in SAS C 5.10a and some earlier versions.
|I reported the bug to SAS a month ago but have not got any answer yet.

I've reported this bug two month ago, same result :-)

|According to the manual, the size of a single subscript of an array may be
|larger than 32767 if long (32-bit) integers are used, this means that a 
|declaration like
|  int far a[2][40000];
|is valid, if long integers are used.
|
|The compiler produces incorrect code, if the size of the second subscript
|is larger than 32767 and if the first subscript is indexed by a variable
|less than 32 bits long.

[description of the bug deleted]

|I could understand if SAS C reported an error in the above
|case, but there is no error message or warning. You simply get a GURU
|when you run the compiled program.
|
|Or maybe I am wrong and what I am doing is illegal in C ?
|
|Btw, the Unix TeX package contains lots of declarations like the above.
|So if you try to compile it on an Amiga, better be careful...

That's the reason, why there exists no bigTeX version of PasTeX. :-((

|Holger Kruse

	Georg.


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