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1 total messages Started by ucfwhm Wed, 11 Nov 1981 23:17
Bug in Pc
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Author: ucfwhm
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1981 23:17
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This describes a strange problem that I am having with pc.

The following program works just fine:
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program x(input,output);
var mdate,stime,abcd: alfa ;
begin
        writeln(' x.p  test');
	time(stime);
	writeln(' time:',stime:10);
	date(mdate);
	writeln(' date:',mdate:10);
end.

While the following program gets "Illegal Instruction"
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program x(input,output);
var mdate,stime,ctime: alfa ;
begin
        writeln(' x.p  test');
	time(stime);
	writeln(' time:',stime:10);
	date(mdate);
	writeln(' date:',mdate:10);
end.
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Although I was getting "Illegal Instruction", I was getting no core dump.

I tried running it with adb and found that the trace back indicated that
_ctime was being called from _TIME at the time of failure.

I consulted the source for "time" in /usr/src/lib/pc/TIME.c and found that
ctime is declared as an extern.  It is curious that the linker is getting
mixed up by this and not flagging it.  I grepped in lib/pc for other externs
and found that index and malloc were also declared as externs.  I tried
substituting malloc for ctime and found that ld flagged malloc as
multiply-defined.

Well, this seems like a fairly serious bug that needs to be fixed, although
it can be gotten around.

					Bill Mitchell
					Univ. of Central Florida
ps.
This was compiled under a 4.1 system that was shipped about one week ago.
We had a similar problem under 4.0, but that was just before we switched
over and I didn't have a chance to pursue it then.
[My apologies if this is mentioned in the documentation somewhere and I
missed it.]
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