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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 11:13:09 -0500
To: "Michael A. Phelps" <morphine AT blaze DOT cs DOT jhu DOT edu>
From: Daniel Pierce <ab134 AT oak-web DOT washington-ch DOT oh DOT us>
Subject: RE: lint for gjgpp?
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 05:28 PM 3/29/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Just a guess, but perhaps if you made either a global or static char * to
contain the "<not found>" message, it would work better.  Otherwise, if it
is to return "<not found>", I don't think you are returning a pointer to a
valid memory address once the function exists.  What happens if you try
something like this in your function:
>	static char	not_found_message[] = "<not found>";
>		...
>	else
>		return (not_found_message);
>
>gcc is much less forgiving about accessing unallocated (or not currently
allocated) memory than is TC, so my hunch is that this is the reason why you
are just experiencing this problem with DJGPP.
>							---Michael Phelps, MD 

It returns the <not found> ok each time.  The database is defined and loaded
from an ascii text file and at program end written out to a different file
name. 
Here's what it does:
        Database:    1 = "Mess1", 2 = "Mess2", 3 = "Mess3", 4 = "Mess4", etc.

        The prog calls say 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, etc. and returns "Mess1",
"Mess1", "Mess1", "Mess1", "Mess2", "Mess2", "Mess2", etc.  It randomly
picks how long it's run of the same return lasts, then starts another run
using the last new index.  Very confusing.  Each index call is checked,
printf'ed to the screen, program paused, then return'ed, printf'ed, paused
again.  And what is sent in the return does not match up with what is
received.  The database is < 64K and is global.  I could do it as a large
switch but then the database can't be changed or added to.  Prior version of
the prog used a switch and that worked fine.

I discovered the unallocation problems gcc has a few weeks ago and double
checked all global variables to ensure nothing was left hanging empty.

I checked out the source code for lint (linux) and can see why it hasn't
been ported.