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From: kevin@iisat.UUCP (Kevin Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,alt.sources
Subject: Re: lload for xenix
Summary: incorrect lseek calls
Keywords: lload xenix Lars_Pensj
Message-ID: <15@iisat.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 89 14:07:48 GMT
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In article <1349@rivm05.UUCP>, ccea3@rivm.UUCP (Adri Verhoef) writes:
> I compiled with -DM_I386, although the machine is a microVAX,
> as to use _pbuf instead of _buf, and I got
> 	lseek v: Invalid argument
> The belonging call is:
> 	lseek(kmem, v_p->n_value, 0)
> Printing v_p->n_value yields -2147211432.
> 
> Any ideas?  Thanks.


There's a couple of lseek's in the program that did this.
The problem is that n_value in the nlist structure is defined as
unsigned int, but the lseek argument has to be a long (since in this
realm int != long).
so,
	lseek(kmem, (long) v_p->n_value,0)

this should do the trick...

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