[net.sources.bugs] shortshort way of reversing the lines in a file

mwherman@watcgl.UUCP (Michael W. Herman) (09/04/85)

I found that the "shorter version" segemention faulted when
reading the 50th line of a file (and I tried several several
different files).  I haven't tried to run the problem down yet.
Does anyone have any ideas?

jnw@mcnc.UUCP (John White) (09/20/85)

> I found that the "shorter version" segemention faulted when
> reading the 50th line of a file (and I tried several several
> different files).  I haven't tried to run the problem down yet.
> Does anyone have any ideas?

I assume you are refering to the program with the routine that reads
a line into a local buffer, recurses, and prints the line. This routine
requires a buffer on the stack for each line of the file. If you have
a 1k buffer size on your machine and a 64k segment size, then you will
run out of memory at around 50 lines.
- John