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From: U0012@DGOGWDG5.BITNET ("GWDGV1::MOELLER")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: "severe bug in VAX-C ..."
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Date: 3 Jun 88 17:34:00 GMT
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Jon Olson  writes on 27 May 88 23:45:03 GMT

>   This  program demonstrates a  severe bug in  the  VMS VAX-C V2.3 and
>   V2.4 C-compilers (V2.2 is OK, though).  It seems that the C-compiler
>   treats  `plot.xdata' and  `plot.ydata'  as  2-dimensional  arrays of
>   floats  instead  of as vectors of   pointers.
>       ...

I tested the program given with VAX C V2.3-024 under VMS V4.7,
without any problems.

Are you sure your VMS is up to the required version?
Once there was a bug in malloc() within VAXCRTL,
which was fixed by the VMS V4.6 mandatory update and by VMS V4.7.

Wolfgang J. Moeller, GWDG, D-3400 Goettingen, F.R.Germany | Disclaimer ...
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