weird egcs bug

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 16, 2000, Greg Bacon <gbacon@itsc.uah.edu> wrote:

> In message < oru2i6fxij.fsf@garnize.lsd.ic.unicamp.br >,
>     Alexandre Oliva writes:

> : Isn't it wrong that maxfd is both incremented and added 1?

> Well, yes, but that shouldn't cause select() to hang, should it?

It might if one of fd[12] happens to be FD_SETSIZE-1.  It would also
explain the stack corruption.  And, with the call to printf, you may
get a different stack layout.

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