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Article #1166

bug fix for find 3.7

#1166
From: Joseph H Buehler
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:22
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I had been having problems with the "locate" part of GNU find 3.6 and
3.7, running under SVR4.0.3 on a 486 platform.  It turned out to be a
bug in the putw() routine in the C library on this platform.  The
following patches eliminate usage of this routine in locate/code.c and
locate/locate.c.

Joe Buehler

*** code.c.~1~	Tue Jul 14 01:14:28 1992
--- code.c	Sat Dec 12 12:31:14 1992
***************
*** 115,122 ****
--- 115,131 ----
        diffcount = count - oldcount;
        if (diffcount < -14 || diffcount > 14)
  	{
+ #ifdef OLDSTUFF
  	  putc (RESET, stdout);
  	  putw (diffcount + 14, stdout);
+ #else
+ 	  int tempint = diffcount + 14;
+ 	  putc (RESET, stdout);
+ 	  putc ((unsigned char)(tempint >> 0), stdout);
+ 	  putc ((unsigned char)(tempint >> 8), stdout);
+ 	  putc ((unsigned char)(tempint >> 16), stdout);
+ 	  putc ((unsigned char)(tempint >> 24), stdout);
+ #endif
  	}
        else
  	putc (diffcount + 14, stdout);
*** locate.c.~1~	Tue Jul 14 00:25:14 1992
--- locate.c	Sat Dec 12 12:32:05 1992
***************
*** 111,117 ****
--- 111,130 ----
    c = getc (fp);
    while (c != EOF)
      {
+ #ifdef OLDSTUFF
        count += ((c == ESCCODE) ? getw (fp) : c) - OFFSET;
+ #else
+ 	  if (c == ESCCODE) {
+ 		  int tempint = 0;
+ 		  tempint += ((unsigned int)(unsigned char) getc (fp)) << 0;
+ 		  tempint += ((unsigned int)(unsigned char) getc (fp)) << 8;
+ 		  tempint += ((unsigned int)(unsigned char) getc (fp)) << 16;
+ 		  tempint += ((unsigned int)(unsigned char) getc (fp)) << 24;
+ 		  count += tempint - OFFSET;
+ 	  } else {
+ 		  count += c - OFFSET;
+ 	  }
+ #endif
  
        for (p = path + count; (c = getc (fp)) > ESCCODE;)
  	/* Overlay old path. */
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From: jhpb@sarto.budd-lake.nj.US (Joseph H Buehler)
Subject: bug fix for find 3.7
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:22:15 GMT
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