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From: klute%trillian.irb@unido.uucp (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Laser C
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Date: 2 Aug 88 13:10:38 GMT
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Reply-To: klute@trillian.UUCP (Rainer Klute)
Organization: University of Dortmund,West Germany
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After a few days of working with my new Laser C I stumbled over
some errors. Here they are:


1. LASER  C doesn't work if GDOS is resident.  The shell starts  up 
   correctly but crashes as soon as a program is loaded.


2. In OSBIND.H a typedef is made for the 'disk transfer  address' 
   used by functions Fsfirst() and Fsnext():

      typedef struct {
         char         dta_reserved[21];   /* reserved */
         char         dta_attr;           /* attribute */
         unsigned int dta_time;           /* time */
         unsigned int dta_date;           /* date */
         long         dta_len;            /* length */
         char         dta_name[14];       /* name */
      } dta;

   On the other hand Fgetdta() is defined as
      #define Fgetdta()    (dta *)gemdos(0x2f)
   which  causes some error messages when Fgetdta() is  used.  To 
   overcome this the quoted typedef should be changed to

      typedef struct _dta { ... } dta;


3. Conversion  from  double to float does not  work  for  numbers 
   greater than 6.805647338418769898282789654E38.


4. The  Resource  Construction Program sometimes crashes  in  the 
   "Save" function. Redress: use the "Save as" function.

That's it so far. Any comments (Megamax)?

I am willing to compile a list of errors in Laser C. So if you
found out any more errors please report them to me by mail. I
will summarize to the net.

	Rainer Klute

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