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From: rankin@EQL.Caltech.EDU (Pat Rankin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: C curses (mvgetstr() bug)
Message-ID: <870611142444.003@EQL.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 17:26:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 11 17:26:10 1987
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>>     1070    1       mvgetstr(10, 20, pword);
>>    %CC-W-TOOMANYMACARGS, Argument list for macro "mvgetstr" contains
>>                    too many arguments;  excess arguments ignored.
>>    %CC-W-TOOFEWMACARGS, Argument list for macro "mvwgetstr" contains
>>                    too few arguments;  missing arguments assumed to be null.
>>    (VAX C V2.1-007 under VAX VMS V4.5)

> mvgetstr() has been erroneously defined as taking only two parameters - the
> str parameter is missing.  It, in turn, proceeds to call mvwgetstr() without
> the str parameter - but mvwgetstr() is defined WITH the str parameter.  
> Congratulations!  You've found a genuine VAX C bug!

No need to SPR, it's fixed in the latest release:  VAX C version V2.3-024.