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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: An ARexx bug ?
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Date: 17 May 89 03:01:50 GMT
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In <895@tucos.UUCP>, sutela@tucos.UUCP (Kari Sutela) writes:
>I noticed this bug when I tested the graph.rexx program which was distributed
>with rexxarplib v2.2. I noticed that the program would freeze at a statement
>which was something like this: "somevar = -x**2". Immediately when x becomes
>zero, the program will freeze. BTW, I don't remember whether this bug occurred
>in graph.rexx or testgraphs.rexx.
>
>Anyway, I researched a bit more and found that this one-liner will also 
>cause the problem (even after remlib()'ing rexxarplib and rexxmathlib):
>
>/* bug.rexx */
>say -0
>
>The program never stops and system performance will decrease dramatically.

It doesn't hang for me, so it may be a bug in any one of the libs or in ARexx
itself. I am testing a newer version, so it may have been fixed. I know there
are a few squashed bugs in rexxsyslib and ARexx itself.

-larry

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