OpenEuphoria

Re: Compiler crash?

• Posted by Vincent <darkvincentdude at yahoo.com> Jun 07, 2005
• 469 views

Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
>   puts(1, c_func(up, {rand("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv") + ' '}) & '\n')
> <font color="#330033"></eucode>
{{{
</font>
> 
> I've had time to pin it down now.
> The bug is caused because the Translator assumes
> that c_func() must always return an atom. This used to be true
> a few years ago, and is still true if you only call C-coded 
> functions in .dlls. However it is possible to call a 
> Euphoria-coded function in a .dll, and that function might be one
> that returns a sequence. Above, the translator uses this bad assumption 
> and produces incorrect code for the concatenation step. 
> If you assign the result of c_func() to a variable,
> or if your Euphoria function does in fact return an atom, 
> there shouldn't be a problem. Also, in the example above,
> you could split the statement into two simpler statements. 
> In more complicated expressions, bad C code could result. 
> I'll fix it for the next release. It's just a one-line change.
> 
> Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    <a href="http://www.RapidEuphoria.com">http://www.RapidEuphoria.com</a>
> 

Werent you planning on releasing v2.5.1? Or did it turn out that there wasnt a
significant enough amount of bug fixes, after the official release to be worth
the effort of updating the email links and website?

Regards,
Vincent

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