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- From: walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
- Subject: Re: Advice to SAS/C 5.10b users
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:55:42 GMT
- References: <BzDM7J.5nG@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <1992Dec18.154954@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> <BzM5Kw.CuD@unx.sas.com> <1992Dec22.233153.17212@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.233153.17212@oracle.us.oracle.com>, dnavas@oracle.uucp (David Navas) writes:
- |> In article <BzM5Kw.CuD@unx.sas.com> walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker) writes:
- |> >There are no reported bugs in far code/far data as of now.
- |> >Don't complain about bugs until you have reported them.
- |>
- |> Err, uhh, unless 6.2 magically made its appearance without my noticing, there
- |> is at LEAST one reported far data/utillib problem that your should have
- |> scheduled to fix for 6.2....
-
- I asked tech support to check, and we do not have any bug reports
- attributed to you by name. It is possible that it is filed under
- a misspelled version of your last name or something, of course.
- The bug you described was stack overflows being caused by the use
- of far code/far data in a program bigger than one file, which is
- so unlikely that I am quite tempted to call it "impossible" despite
- the fact that the impossible seems to happen regularly in software.
-
- Your first posting didn't mention utillib or optimize, which this
- one did. This of course changes the initial reort. Are there any
- other options we should know about? How about code to reproduce
- the problem? Is the symptom a stack overflow or something else?
-
- |> Hey, and relax out there -- peace on earth, good will toward (wo)men,
- |> 'member something like that from your distant past? ;}
-
- Remember the original posting that started all this was by someone
- who was advising others not to upgrade to V6 because of all the
- bugs people were talking about on the net. This is partially
- because only "bad news" is discussed here, but it is also partially
- due to the fact that people tend to blame the compiler when their
- code acts funny. Sorry if I blew up at your posting, but it
- certainly looked like another "this must be a compiler bug,
- but I'm not going to tell you any details" reference.
-
- |>
- |> David C. Navas dnavas@oracle.com
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