Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 11:18:36 -0800 (PST) From: invalid opcode <coredump@nervosa.com> To: Lapinsky Alexander <avl@kiam1.rssi.ru> Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/bin/mt core dumped Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960220111735.1181S-100000@nervosa.com> In-Reply-To: <199602201558.SAA27041@flox.kiam1.rssi.ru>
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On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Lapinsky Alexander wrote:
> Some times mt utility "core dumped" (it is right, for example,
> for Archive/Wangtek QIC-02 tape controller).
> Small changes (see below) corrects this trouble
> (move in source code 1 line down -- quite simple :-).
>
> *** /cdrom/usr/src/usr.bin/mt/mt.c Fri Aug 25 22:45:34 1995
> --- mt.c Fri Feb 16 17:15:34 1996
> ***************
> *** 302,309 ****
> printf("%s=%o", s, v);
> else
> printf("%s=%x", s, v);
> - bits++;
> if (v && bits) {
> putchar('<');
> while (i = *bits++) {
> if (v & (1 << (i-1))) {
> --- 302,309 ----
> printf("%s=%o", s, v);
> else
> printf("%s=%x", s, v);
> if (v && bits) {
> + bits++;
> putchar('<');
> while (i = *bits++) {
> if (v & (1 << (i-1))) {
> ****************************** cut here ****************************
>
It looks as you are itterating the actual pointer, and not the contents
of the pointer, also, if what you intended was *bits++, look down lower,
it's in the while loop.
== Chris Layne ==============================================================
== coredump@nervosa.com ================= http://www.nervosa.com/~coredump ==
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