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From: wasser_1@viking.DEC (John A. Wasser)
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Subject: Bug in English to Phoneme Translation
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Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 11:08:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  2 11:08:38 1985
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	There is a bug in the English to Phoneme translation I posted
	last week:

		In the routine leftmatch() there is a loop that looks
		like this:

			for ( ; pat != pattern ; pat--)

		This loop terminates early and should be changed to:
	
			int cnt;	/* Number of characters in pattern */
			.
			.
			.
			for (cnt = strlen(pattern) ; cnt > 0 ; pat--,cnt--)

	I do not recommend fixing this by changing the != to >= because
	the variables are pointers and relational operations on pointers
	are not very portable.

	The file containing this bug also needs definitions of TRUE and
	FALSE:

		#define FALSE 0
		#define TRUE (!FALSE)

	These seem to be pre-defined in VAX VMS 'C' under which the
	code was developed.

		-John A. Wasser

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