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From: jafischer@watrose.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: C compiler (Megamax 'bugs')
Message-ID: <8416@watrose.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 00:36:28 EST
Article-I.D.: watrose.8416
Posted: Thu Jan 29 00:36:28 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Jan-87 18:55:03 EST
References: <8701231914.AA14914@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <8400@watrose.UUCP> <2139@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: jafischer@watrose.UUCP (Jonathan Fischer)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <2139@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@batcomputer.UUCP (braner) writes:
> ... you should write
>	if ((int)Cnecin() == 'q')...
	Woops.  My apologies, I assumed that Cnecin() was actually an int
function.  You got me there!  But wait, 

>My experiments on the modulus operator (%) and the post-increment (++)
>didn't show any problems.  (If you have a SPECIFIC example, Jonathan,
>tell me.)

	I'll try to dig up some examples, Moshe.  At one point, I was
printing out the values right where the '%' was causing me problems, and yup,
they were negative.  It was some code that worked fine on the IBM PC (Lattice)
and PDP-11 compilers at work, but wouldn't work on Megamax on the ST.  I ended
up using floating point to work around it.
	The '++' thingy is more obscure, but it was definitely
happening once.  At least once.  Again, it was something I'd written at work
which wouldn't work on the ST.  I'll look for the code and post it if it's
still lying around on a disk somewhere.  I suppose (meekness and humility
emanating from your screen here...) that I was wrong in posting bug reports
without some cold hard code to back up my claims.  Unsubstantiated claims
like that border on slander, right?  Like, I'm dead meat, right?  Lawsuit
city... No!  It was a Unix daemon, not me, who sent that message!
	...And, of course, once I post the code, someone (probably Moshe)
will point out the obvious error on my part...  No, seriously, I'm pretty
darn sure about these two errors.
	I'll look up those two code examples & post 'em pronto.
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