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Date:      Tue, 18 Feb 1997 20:40:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: bin/2762: Precedence mistake in libncurses
Message-ID:  <199702190440.UAA01576@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/2762; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: arnej@imf.unit.no, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:  Subject: Re: bin/2762: Precedence mistake in libncurses
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:31:09 +1100

 >	Some code in libncurses looks wrong, like somebody misunderstood
 >	the C precedence rules for bit operators and ==.  (Since it
 >	is commonly agreed that those precedence rules are wrong, this
 >	is not very surprising :-)
 
 sysinstall apparently used to depend on these bugs:
 
 RCS file: /a/ncvs/src/lib/libncurses/lib_addch.c,v
 Working file: lib_addch.c
 head: 1.6
 ...
 ----------------------------
 revision 1.6
 date: 1996/09/26 01:08:27;  author: pst;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
 Back out my recent compilation clean-up changes, sysinstall is now weird.
 ----------------------------
 revision 1.5
 date: 1996/09/22 01:04:49;  author: pst;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
 Fix some compilation warnings
 ----------------------------
 
 Bruce



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