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Re: PopUpMenu good Path bad (on an A3000)

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From: Rick Schaeffer
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 1990 19:37
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In regard to ls in csh4.01 hanging up, I use a version of csh
(derived from 2.07m) that I have hacked on and had the same problem
when using it on 2.0.  It turns out that the code that creates the
linked list of directory entries was allocating one (1) byte too few.
This turns out to create a problem because it causes the next byte
in memory to be zeroed out.  Since addresses on the 3000 under 2.0
actually use all 32 bits (apparently some or all of the extended memory
is addressed at something above 7fffff) this causes a "delayed action"
crash.  Delayed because it is AMigados's memory arena that has been
corrupted!  Under 1.3 addresses aren't usually above 0x7fffff so this
bug didn't cause trouble.

I don't know if this is the problem with csh4.01 but, since the code
dealing with file lists was straight out of the original csh program
it's possible that it is.

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