[comp.sources.games.bugs] Error in compiling NetHack 3p9

elliott@bunker.UUCP (Elliott Kleinrock) (07/19/90)

I get this error when I try to compile NetHack on a Altos running System V:

	cc -O -I../include -c invent.c
"invent.c", line 493: compiler error: eanode: bad argument
*** Error code 1

Stop.

This is line 493:
		while(ilet = bp[++foo2] = bp[++foo]){

This is the surrounding code:
	bp[foo] = 0;
	if(foo == 0 && bp > buf && bp[-1] == ' ') *--bp = 0;
	Strcpy(lets, bp);	/* necessary since we destroy buf */
	if(foo > 5) {			/* compactify string */
		foo = foo2 = 1;
		ilet2 = bp[0];
		ilet1 = bp[1];
		while(ilet = bp[++foo2] = bp[++foo]){
			if(ilet == ilet1+1){
				if(ilet1 == ilet2+1)
					bp[foo2 - 1] = ilet1 = '-';
				else if(ilet2 == '-') {
					bp[--foo2] = ++ilet1;
					continue;
				}
			}
			ilet2 = ilet1;
			ilet1 = ilet;
		}
	}

I would appriciate it if some one could tell me how to fix this.
-- 
	- Elliott

	elliott@bunker.uucp
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