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In article <7189@cbnews.ATT.COM> r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr) writes:
^In article <16964@sequent.UUCP> phil@sequent.UUCP (Phil Hochstetler) writes:
^- I noticed a typo in top 2.5 in the file "display.c".
^- The following code has an extra ";" at line 117.
^- 
^-    117	    if (mpid != lmpid);
^-    118	    {
^-    119		Move_to(x_lastpid, y_lastpid);
^-    120		printf("%5d", mpid);
^-    121		lmpid = mpid;
^-    122	    }
^- 
^- This bug is somewhat harmless but does increase the cpu time consumed.
^
^The ";" at the end of line 117 terminates the "if" statement.
^Thus lines 119-121 are ALWAYS executed,
^probably not what the programmer of top 2.5 intended.
^This doesn't seem to me to be a harmless bug!

Look at what the code does: moves to the correct location on the screen, then
prints out the "mpid" variable, then sets lmpid to mpid.  Even if mpid is the
same as lmpid, the output result is the same.  Seems pretty harmless to me!

				--Tony

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