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From: msc@canth.SGI.COM (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: insignificant zeros crash server, film at 11 ...
Summary: setdash fix
Message-ID: <20381@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 88 01:35:06 GMT
References: <8810040723.AA04993@brillig.umd.edu>
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <8810040723.AA04993@brillig.umd.edu>, marshall@software.ORG (Eric Marshall) writes:
> 
> 	It sounds weird to me, but both of the following programs
> cause the server to dump core:
> 
> 		[ 4.00000 ] 0 setdash
> 		100 100 moveto
> 		200 100 lineto stroke
> 	and
> 		[ 00004.0 ] 0 setdash
> 		100 100 moveto
> 		200 100 lineto stroke

The following change fixes this problem (thanks to James for the fix)

In the routine setdash() in server/nucleus/misc.c change

	case real_type:
		buf[i] = optop->value.real;
		break;

to

	case real_type:
		buf[i] = fractf(optop->value.real);
		break;
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