stealth@engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) (11/15/90)
After a fruitless reading of the notebook/problems file in the C-news package, I am still stuck with the error: (ccom): string.c, line 136: ccom: Internal: wasted space: 2002067630 } ^ in the function: STATIC _initishostchar() { register char *p; register int c; if (!setishostchar) { setishostchar = YES; for (c = 0, p = ishostchar; c < sizeof ishostchar; c++) *p++ = isascii(c) && isalnum(c); ishostchar['.'] = ishostchar['-'] = YES; } } Does anyone have any ideas as to what wasted space it's referring to, and why the error pointer is pointing to the closing brace of a function? This is on a DECstation 3100 under Ultrix 3.1d. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. -- Mike Pelletier - Usenet News Admin & Programmer "Wind, waves, etc. are breakdowns in the face of the commitment to getting from here to there. But they are the conditions for sailing -- not something to be gotten rid of, but something to be danced with."
geoff@zoo.toronto.edu (Geoffrey Collyer) (11/15/90)
To quote notebook/problems: --- .SH Values of Logical Operators .PP There seem to be compilers, e.g. the Ultrix one on DEC's new RISC workstations, that go into convulsions when they see something like .DS *p++ = isascii(c) && isalnum(c); .DE because they don't know how to generate a numeric value for `&&', or because they don't know how to turn that value into a `char'. One or two places in C News use constructs like this. If you run into this, you might want to try replacing the right-hand side with something like ``(...)\ ?\ 1\ :\ 0'' to get the troublesome operator back into a conditional context. --- The current DEC MIPS compiler is broken. Be sure to file an SPR so that DEC fixes this. -- Geoff Collyer utzoo!geoff, zoo.toronto.edu!geoff