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From: christos@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christos S. Zoulas)
Subject: Spice 3d2 bug fixes
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Organization: Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 00:14:15 GMT


Hello, 

After a 10 hour marathon, I managed to compile spice 3d2 on the apollos
running Domain/OS 10.3.4. The major problem was that spice includes <math.h>
many times and Domain/OS does not protect it. All the rest of the problems
were valid bugs that were caught by the compiler. 

One of the most important bugs was in the BSIM1 model, where the routine 
DFnF12() was called with 6 fewer parameters than needed! (in BSIM1disto.c)

Other bug fixes include:

o	X11 R3/R4 portability [and x fixes]
o	Incorrect ANSI prototype fixes.
o	Incorrect declarations of the form *name[SIZE] when name[SIZE] is
	needed. (name was used as a buffer in sprintf() calls!)
o	Other parser related bugs. type edit` and see spice core-dump.

All the patches can be found on tesla.ee.cornell.edu:/pub/cad/spice3d2.patch.Z

christos
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