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From: rpw3@redwood.UUCP (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Bug in compress - (nf)
Message-ID: <121@redwood.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 19:47:27 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 15 19:47:27 1985
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| You are absolutely correct.  The above code was inserted for the
| Perkin-Elmer machine which outputs a 4 times slower compare instruction
| without the "(unsigned)".  The correct fix follows:
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| Full-Name:  Joseph M. Orost
| UUCP:       ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!joe
| US Mail:    MS 313; Perkin-Elmer; 106 Apple St; Tinton Falls, NJ 07724
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Uhh... This may be a stupid question, but if it's that slow, would there
be any problem in simply defining "EOF" to be "((unsigned) -1)" in the
Interdata "stdio.h"? That way, everyone in the world doesn't have to
put "#ifdef interdata" in the code.


Rob Warnock
Systems Architecture Consultant

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