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From: David Tannen <bluesguy@jcdisciples.org>
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault on VADSself
Date: 1999/09/04
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Simon,

>This sounds like bitter exerience speaking :-)

It certainly is.

 
>My advice, FWIW, would have been to find another way of 
>solving this problem that didn't involve variant records; 
>it sounds horribly non-portable!

In my case I inherited a lot of code that is running on VAX,
Solaris & HP/UX.  The funny thing is that the very same code
w/ the very same version of the VADS compiler works perfectly
on Solaris.  Bizzare!

Just the joys of s/w development.

-- 
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