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From: rlk@chinet.UUCP (Richard Klappal)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Looking for patches to PD Curses from mod.sources
Message-ID: <1047@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-May-87 19:18:18 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 23 19:18:18 1987
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In article <2547@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
>...
>Basically, I got it to compile, but the "compile" command (aka Sys5 "tic")
>would always dump core and I could never find out why.  compile -v9 gave me
>no useful information on what was going on; it would compile the first few
>entries, then get some garbage which I couldn't trace and explode.
>...
In working on curses for my Fortune, I located that bug.  I don't
recall which file it was in, in the 'compile' files, but one of the
tests for the need for a byte-swap is inverted.  Search the code for
'needswap', (I think).  The swapping action for one of them swaps when
its not needed, and vice-versa, compared to all others.

I don't understand the need for making the compiled files
'machine-independent' in this kind of file, unless someone intends to
distribute only compiled data files, with no data sources.  Thus, I am
slowly in the process of re-working this set of libraries.  When (if)
I get finished, I will repost it (unless I am prevented by the
copy-right.  Will check with the legal-eagle.)

I will attempt to isolate any machine dependencies, bu can't promise
it given the V7/SYSIII/BSD2.?/BSD4.1 hybridicity of this machine.

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