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From: walters@io.UUCP (Tim Walters)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: v11i078:  C cross-reference database system
Message-ID: <392@io.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 21:10:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: io.392
Posted: Mon Sep 28 21:10:46 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Sep-87 07:27:53 EDT
References: <1917@uunet.UU.NET>
Reply-To: walters@wally.UUCP (Tim Walters)
Organization: Interleaf, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 35

We just fired up the C cross-reference database system posted by Greg
Mcgary and it looks like we'll be using it a lot, mostly because it's
*very* fast. Thanks, Greg.

We did run into a problem with a segmentation violation when no
database exists in the current directory. Here is a context diff of
a fix:

*** lid.c	Mon Sep 28 19:12:58 1987
--- /src/local/gid/lid.c	Mon Sep 28 12:12:17 1987
***************
*** 116,125
  	}
  argsdone:
  
! 	if ((IdDir = getDirToName(idFile))== NULL) {
! 		filerr("open", idFile);
! 		exit(1);
! 	}
  	idFile = spanPath(IdDir, idFile);
  	if ((IdFILE = initID(idFile, &Idh, &IdArgs)) == NULL) {
  		filerr("open", idFile);

--- 116,122 -----
  	}
  argsdone:
  
! 	IdDir = getDirToName(idFile);
  	idFile = spanPath(IdDir, idFile);
  	if ((IdFILE = initID(idFile, &Idh, &IdArgs)) == NULL) {
  		filerr("open", idFile);
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