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From: bet@BENT.MC.DUKE.EDU (Bennett Todd)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: core dumper under GCC 1.30
Message-ID: <8810191656.AA18104@bent.mc.duke.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 88 16:56:55 GMT
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The following dumps core when compiled with gcc-1.30 on a Sun 3/60 running
SunOS 3.5, but not when compiled with the SunOS C compiler. It actually
dumps down in the bowels of stdio in the sscanf. It looks to me like
something or other in the run-time environment isn't beeing arranged to suit
sscanf. A friend (Ned Danieley, ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu) stumbled across it
recompiling an X application. We were running 1.29 at the time; I fetched
the diffs and brought us up to 1.30. Still dumps, appearantly the same way.

Here's the program:

	#include <stdio.h>

	char *Date = "$Date: 88/09/09 12:02:35 $";

	main() {
	int y, m, d;
	
	fprintf(stderr, "date is %s\n", Date);
	    sscanf(&Date[7], "%d", &y);
	fprintf(stderr, "y %d\n", y);
	}

If my request to be added to bug-gcc gets honored I should be able to follow
this in the mailing list; I haven't received anything yet. Is there any
bug-gcc traffic these days?

-Bennett
bet@orion.mc.duke.edu (128.109.165.2)