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Article #1049Re: Mush 7.0, PatchLevel 4, and folders.
From: Barton E. Schaefer
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 18:34
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 18:34
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In article <929@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP> sbanner1@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP (S. John Banner) writes:
}
} I just got arround to installing Mush 7, Patchlevel 4 on our Pyramid,
} and the compiler had a small complaint, which I thought I ought to
} mention. On line 35 of folders.c, is a the line:
}
} } else if (!tempfile || !*tempfile) {
}
} however on looking through the code, to fix the problem, I found that
} tempfile is an array of char, and hence ``!tempfile'' must always be
} false (and hence the reason for the error).
If it actually generated an *error* rather than a *warning*, you have a
broken compiler.
} So, I would suggest that
} that portion of the test be removed from the comparason in the next
} set of official patches (unless I am farther behind than I think I am,
} and this has already been delt with...).
I can't decide whether to remove this or not. Clearly, as it stands, it
isn't *necessary* -- but it also doesn't affect the correctness of the
code. If the test were removed, and later the declaration of "tempfile"
should change to become a pointer (to a malloc'd array), the remaining
test of !*tempfile would break.
All in all, I think it's doing more good than harm, but the suggestion
is taken under advisement.
--
Bart Schaefer "February. The hangnail on the big toe of the year."
-- Duffy
schaefer@cse.ogi.edu (used to be cse.ogc.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!schaefer From: schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush Subject: Re: Mush 7.0, PatchLevel 4, and folders. Message-ID: <7616@ogicse.ogi.edu> Date: 28 Feb 90 18:34:04 GMT References: <929@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP> Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR Lines: 33