Help with SCO Xenix compiler bug affecting MH

[Steve Dyer]

In article <1989Jul28.002515.15344 at nc386.uucp> allbery at nc386.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>I'm having trouble with MH under SCO Xenix 2.2.1.  Specifically, I compile the
>distribution with few problems (I'm used to hacking around gratuitous
>Berkeleyisms by now), but when I run "repl" it gets a format compile error
>from the default replcomps:
>
>xrepl: "th))%(putaddr To: )_": format compile error - '>' expected.
>xrepl:                     ^

Yeah, I had this too.  Now, if I can only recreate what I did to fix it...
Let's see.  It was rather an obscure _difference_ in interpretation of the
language, not so much a bug...

Lemme dig...


Oh yes...in sbr/formatsbr.c, function 'normalize'

	static  normalize (cp)
	register char  *cp;
	{
    	register char  *dp;

    	for (dp = cp; *cp; cp++)
        	if (*cp != QUOTE)
            	*dp++ = *cp;
        	else
            	switch (*++cp) {
	#define grot(x) case 'x': *dp++ = '\x'; break;
                    	grot (b);
                    	grot (f);
                    	grot (n);
                    	grot (r);
                    	grot (t);

	/* **** */
	}

The macro "grot" won't work, because XENIX 386 cpp won't substitute
between single quoted character constants.  Rewrite it doing the
expansion yourself.

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Steve Dyer
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