donn@utah-cs.UUCP (Donn Seeley) (10/08/84)
My face is red! (It normally is that color, but you can assume there are a few more zits than usual.) I forgot to credit the REAL originators of the competition, down!north and down!honey (honey@down.FUN? Hey, it was only a joke!). They have a 2-byte program that makes the 4.1 BSD PCC dump core... Peter Honeyman suggests that you find this program by exhaustive search. If you don't have a 4.1 BSD PCC (or are disinclined to perform an exhaustive search), a spoiler will appear at the end of this article. No one sent me a System n PCC core dumper. Either the System n PCCs never dump core, or else I struck a major apathy lode out in ATTBL country. (Since the 4.2 BSD C compiler appears to be the same as the System III C compiler, I'm a bit suspicious of (at least) the System III compiler's virtues.) I am told that some of the valid looper programs still cause the System V PCC to complain, so the PCC still isn't quite perfect. Happy dumping, Donn Seeley University of Utah CS Dept donn@utah-cs.arpa 40 46' 6"N 111 50' 34"W (801) 581-5668 decvax!utah-cs!donn PS -- *1
geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) (10/11/84)
The "spoiler" posted by Donn Seeley gets lots of error messages, but no core dump, on my Unisoft "System V" (actually V7, as I understand it) version of PCC. Maybe they fixed it. -- Geoff Kuenning First Systems Corporation ...!ihnp4!trwrb!desint!geoff