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From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: arc 5.21 on SCO Xenix
Message-ID: <7600@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 6 Oct 88 03:40:56 GMT
References: <162@libove.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX
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In article <162@libove.UUCP> root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) writes:
>I built arc 5.21 on a SCO Xenix 2.2.1 (development system 2.2.1) 80286
>system, and though there are no complaints at all during the compile and
>link, when I run it...
>
>[root]/src/arc521/work:(1 ) % ./arc
>./arc./arc: syntax error at line 1: `)' unexpected
>: ^Ke]K3@^^PP0~P0^BP^Z*x?^CD^H^Cz^?t3^KB^G^Vr^W#t^W^KRt^E^NZ#^H^NX3@#^\
> HHH#|8: not found
>./arc: ##^B0q#: not found

There appears to be some bug in the loader that it generates bogus
a.out files from syntactically correct C code.

This is not the first time I have heard of it.  It appears to be limited
to the 80286 compiler and loader, the 80386 system I have has compiled
several troublesome programs for 286 machines which don't have this nasty
property.
-- 
John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US)                   HASA, "S" Division

      "Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same
                   entropy to create bugs instead?" -- Steve Elias