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From: weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R4 gcc-1.36 SunOS 4.0.3 puzzle
Message-ID: <WEENING.90Feb8002451@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 8 Feb 90 08:24:51 GMT
References: <1990Feb8.010833.20242@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
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In-Reply-To: cbcscmrs@mx.csun.edu's message of 8 Feb 90 01:08:33 GMT

In article <1990Feb8.010833.20242@ucselx.sdsu.edu> cbcscmrs@mx.csun.edu (Mike Stump) writes:

   puzzle will dump core if gcc-1.36 is used on a Sun3 running SunOS 4.0.3

   To fix, use /bin/cc

Reason: puzzle calls sscanf() with a constant string argument.
Fix: use gcc -fwritable-strings.

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Joe Weening                                Computer Science Dept.
weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU          Stanford University