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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: Modula-3 port to 386bsd alpha testers wanted
In-Reply-To: johnh@david.wheaton.edu's message of Tue, 8 Jun 1993 07: 37:22 GMT
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In summary, it looks like John is using a rather old version of 386bsd,
which is a pity! I'll respond to some of his points below.
In article <1993Jun8.073722.7820@wheaton.wheaton.edu> johnh@david.wheaton.edu (John C. Hayward) writes:
ar - if the length of a file name is longer than 16 and odd the resultant
library is unusable to ld and ranlib
Fixed 23 March, by Ken Hughes (patch 107)
sh, csh - do not follow the convention for allowing the first line of the shell
script to specify which shell to invoke.
Not a bug in sh/csh as it is a bug in exec. Not fixed completely yet, but
definately "soon".
cc, float.h - core dumps if you try to use HUGE as a floating point constant.
Fixed 27 Feb, by Handel/da Silva/Poirot. This is actually a problem with
MAX_DOUBLE.
cc, dtoa.h - default rounding of floats to int was round rather than trunc.
/* what does your compiler do with i = 1.6;? */
Not fixed yet.
make - makefiles and SEP seem to behave differently in 386bsd and other unix
platforms
Use gnu make if you're having troubles with BSD make.
I am in Malaysia till the end of the summer and from time to time
our connections via internet go down.
Sounds like you won't be sending out many beta test copies for awhile
then!
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Jordan Hubbard jkh@whisker.lotus.ie