g77 bug

[toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl]

Jeffrey V Siebers wrote:

> I thought I reported this bug ~1 month ago, but am not sure.

It must be longer ago, see below.

> Anyway, The little test program below works on arbitrary
> compilers, except the latest g77 compilers.

[ ... Program exercising write/backspace/endfile/rewind/read
      sequence crashing ... ]

I recall seeing this bug report some months ago.  I managed to 
reproduce it with a recent version of f2c, so it must be in 
the f2c run time library, which is common between f2c and g77.

I mailed David Gay, the maintainer of f2c, about it and he issued
an updated libf2c.  I was just trying to figure out how to 
integrate that into the g77-modified version of libf2c when
I spilled some beer on my laptop - which is still in repair.

Because all of the discussion is on that laptop's hard drive,
I cannot do much about the problem now.

I hope I recover in time for gcc-2.95.3.

Sorry for the delay in replying.
Toon.