[net.sources.bugs] vc bug report

preece@ccvaxa.UUCP (01/16/85)

There seems to be an important bug in vc, which makes it much
less useful.  Attempts to copy a row (using the ^j command),
where the row contains an expression using the +/ operator,
fail to work correctly.  The cells for the operands of the +/
in the expression tree apparently do not get initialized.
The result, in any case, is usually a reference to r0c0
instead of a reference to the cell mentioned in the copied
expression.  Occasionally I have seen, instead of r0c0,
a row number with seven digits.  This looks like pre-existing,
nonconforming garbage.  This means that a row including
a cross-wise summation cannot be copied (generally if the
copied row is copied again the program dies with a segmentation
fault).

Does anyone have a fix for this?

scott preece
ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece