[comp.sys.atari.st] MWC bugs

foster@ihuxv.ATT.COM (r. foster) (04/22/89)

I have version 3.0.6 of Mark Williams C which I upgraded from 2.3.
With 3.0.6 I get strange hangups to the printer occasionally when
running programs under their shell. I have never had any problems
running the same programs directly from GEM.
They come from the MW db program as well as some that I have written.
The nature of it is that when you issue a write command to a printer,
it just hangs for a while like something is going out but nothing ever
shows up at the printer. This is very intermittent and I can never
recall it happenning with the 2.3 version I have. Has anyone else had
this problem. I understand MWC is up to 3.0.9 now. Is this fixed in
that version?

Also the atof() function in MWC  will return 0 if the string starts
with a blank. This is in spite of an explicit statement to the
contrary in the documentation. Fortunately, it is easy to get around.

Bob Foster

maverick@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Steve Whitney) (04/25/89)

I can't help with the other bugs mentioned in the article I'm folowing up
(That's why you don't see a copy of that article here), but I've experienced
one of my own.

Whenever I try to use lmalloc, the version of malloc which can allocate blocks
larger than 64k, I gt out of memory.  Well, I have a megabyte of memory,
and teh configuration of my system makes no difference.  It happens with or
without my 128K RAM disk which would lead me to believe that there is another
problem.  I _have_ been giving it an unsigned long argument.

Anyone used lmalloc successfull?  Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!  --Steve


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maverick@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Steve Whitney) (04/25/89)

Sorry about this, folks, btu I got home, looked at my MWC manual and saw
that I have version 3.0.5, not 3.0.6.  So I have lmalloc() troubles with
3.0.5.                  ~

If anyone has any information, please let me know.  Also, I can't find the
MW customer support number in my manual and have lost the release notes.
Does anyone have that?

Thanks!

							--Steve



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maverick@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Steve Whitney) (04/26/89)

Sorry this follow-up took so long, but our mailer appeared to be dead last
night when I looked at my manual and found out that I had Mark Williams C 
version 3.0.5 rather than 3.0.6 as I had claimed.

If anyone knows what's wrong, I'd still like to know.  I'd also like the
customer support number for Mark  Williams Co.  I can't find it in my manual
and I can't find the release notes.

					Thanks,

					Steve


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