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From: db@cbosgd.UUCP (Deceased Bird)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Aztec 1.06H.1 disk & nested func calls
Message-ID: <2256@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 18:53:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2256
Posted: Fri Jun 27 18:53:22 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Jun-86 04:10:32 EDT
Reply-To: db@cbosgd.UUCP (Deceased Bird)
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Organization: The Pet Shoppe, EC1
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Keywords: update,function calls,fjords

I got my Aztec C 1.06H.1 update disk the other day and installed it.  I don't
know to what extent calling the update number expedited delivery, but I got
the disk within about 5 days of my call.

Note that it is not a bootable disk (which it explains in the README file,
which you could cat if the disk was bootable :-)).  The System file is
version 3.1.1 and the SHELL has a date of (I believe) 6/4/86.

So far, no major problems.  I discovered that the trouble I'd been having
with my application (an 8085 diasassembler, don't ask {okay, ask!}) was
not due to some inherent problem in the SHELL or System (though it might
be a compiler bug) but rather to nested calls to the new time functions
provided with 1.06H.  I was doing a call like:

strcpy(s, ctime(time((time_t)NULL)));

which apparently doesn't work right most of the time (I got address errors
when it died).  Breaking the function calls apart, as in:

time(&foo);
bar = ctime(&foo);
strcpy(s, bar);

(where foo, bar, s, etc. all have the appropriate definitions) seems to have
fixed the problem.  Note that in the nested version, I had everything declared
with the proper pointer types, etc., so I don't think it was a case of the old
A-to-D register switcheroo.  Despite the initial problem getting them to work,
having the UNIX time functions is very handy (thanks, Manx!).

BTW: Does anybody know if Manx expects us to return the H.1 update disk?
There wasn't any reminder to that effect in the package.

Dave Bursik/..cbosgd!db