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In article <3298@watale.waterloo.edu> tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes:
> [Deleted]
>Pretty sad ... so longints are STILL buggy in Logitech 3.x.  Can anybody
>check if this is also true in the OS/2 version?

We have version 3.03 of the LogiTech Modula2-compiler (MS-DOS).
We had this example today:

            PROCEDURE f(l1,l2: LONGINT): LONGINT;
            ...
          VAR
            l1,l2,l3: LONGINT;
            ...
            l1 := l1 + f(l2,l3);

This gave weird results in 'l1'. Rewriting to

            PROCEDURE f(l1,l2: LONGINT): LONGINT; 
            ... 
          VAR 
            l1,l2,l3,l4: LONGINT; 
            ... 
            l4 := f(l2,l3);
            l1 := l1 + l4;

gave the correct result.

Always make expressions involving LONGINTs as simple as possible,
using your own temporary variables (this of course only
applies to the LogiTech-compiler!).

Erik

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