Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!ht!spt!gz
From: gz@spt.entity.com (Gail Zacharias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW C 2.0.2 bug suspected, how do I localize it?
Message-ID: <317@spt.entity.com>
Date: 14 Jun 88 00:48:33 GMT
References: <1215@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM>
Reply-To: gz@entity.com (Gail Zacharias)
Organization: The Entity, Cambridge, MA
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In article <1215@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> freeman@spar.UUCP (Jay Freeman) writes:
>I have a possible bug in MPW C 2.0.2, that is sufficiently subtle that I am
>having great difficulty localizing it well enough to report neatly; I seek
>advice on how best to do so.
> ....		   So I restored the declaration of "myLong" to its original
>form, and added to "foo" a call to a bogus function:
>	bogus( &myLong );
>WITH THE CALL TO "bogus" INSTALLED, THE BUG WENT AWAY!

Sounds like you've localized it.  Now just disassemble (i.e. dumpobj) "foo"
both with and without the call to "bogus" and take a good look at the code
generated.

(I won't even mention the relevance of this kind of situation to a certain
other discussion taking place in this group...)

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