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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: MaxTADS & addword/delword
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Robert A. Pelak (pelak@hannah.msc.cornell.edu) wrote:
> >> >I tested the fragment using the 2.2.1 runtime which recently appeared @
> >> >gmd.de.  Just as before, delword() didn't work.  Chalk one up for MaxTADS.
> >
> >> MaxTADS is probably getting lucky.  As far as I know, there's only one
> >> bug fixed in MaxTADS that's not fixed in the standard 2.2.1 distribution,
> >> and that wouldn't (as far as I can tell) affect delword().  
> >
> >Correct.

> Could it be a 16 bit versus 32 bit integer issue?  What size ints are
> being used in MaxTADS?

32-bit ints in MaxTADS. 

I think it's time for me to ask, "what *is* the delword() bug, specifically?"

And what versions of the TADS runtime has it been observed in? All the
Unix ports use 32-bit ints, I assume. For the IBM, there are both 16-bit
and 32-bit versions right? (Or am I confusing address width with int
width?)

--Z


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