[comp.sys.atari.st] Lattice fwrite

R.D.Chafer@sysc.salford.ac.UK (11/21/89)

>
>Date: 20 Nov 89 09:19:50 GMT
>From: eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!inria!loria!wiener.crin.fr!domen@bloom-beacon.mit.edu  (Eric Domenjoud)
>Subject: BUG in FWRITE (LATTICE C)
>
>I'd like to report a bug I found in the function FWRITE of the library
>GEMLIB.BIN of LATTICE C. Writing 0xFF to a file causes an error.
>I've included the code of this function with some comments so that
>everybody can see the bug is.
>
>Did somebody already notice it?
>Does this bug really exist or only in my version ? (would be very strange)
>
>Anyway, be carefull when using this function.
>
>Eric
> [lots of code omitted]
>
 
First of all: I don't use Lattice C so I could be completely wrong.
Character 255 is quite often used as an EOF character, could this be a
possible source of problems?
 
Robert Chafer
 
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