🚀 go-pugleaf

The following program breaks the MWC C compiler (v3.0, I don't know
about others):
------- try.c -----
float foo( bar )
     float (*bar)();
{
    return (*bar)(3.0);   /* breaks here */
}

float sqr( sink )
     float sink;
{
    return sink*sink;
}

main()
{
    printf( "%g\n", foo( sqr ));
    exit(0);
}
------- end of try.c ---

Compile this with 
cc -f try.c

to get an ``internal compiler error'' referring to the line commented
with ``breaks here''.  I called MWC tech support, and they told that
they knew of the problem and were working on it, but for the time
being there was a very simple solution: change the declaration for bar
to
     double (*bar)();
and it will work.

Making the appropriate changes indeed causes the program to compile
and link without errors; when run, it gives the correct output
(9.00000), and terminates normally.

BTW: tech support from MWC was very good: I was talking to the right
guy in under 30 seconds, and he was polite, helpful, to the point, and
knew what he was doing.  They left a good impression there.

Rob Carriere