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Subj:	Small fix for MAINT and other VAX C 3.0 info

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Date: 26 Jul 89 16:53:05 GMT
From: peirce@gumby.wisc.edu  (Leonard J. Peirce)
Organization: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Subject: Small fix for MAINT and other VAX C 3.0 info
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A small fix for MAINT is necessary to use the Expand command on files
that have ACL's.  Line 4875 of MAINT2.C looks like

	 buf_len += *tptr;		/* update processed length	      */

It should be modified to look like

	 buf_len += (USHORT) *tptr;	/* update processed length	      */

It *used* to work before we upgrade our C compiler.  Looks like VAX C 3.0 bit
me again....

Some other things that you might want to look out for in VAX C 3.0:

   1) size_t has been changed from int to unsigned int.

   2) The union in prvdef.h for manipulating privs has to be aligned on a
      longword boundary to work properly.  For example, the following won't
      always work:

      static union prvdef privs;

      You should use

      static union prvdef _align(longword) privs;

      to force longword alignment.

   3) The inline optimization code is faulty.  DEC suggest not using it
      for now.  Make sure that you compile your C code with the
      /OPTIMIZE=NOINLINE qualifier.

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