Fantastic/wow - you found the bug that fast? What a bunch of great programmers we have behind this grand apl. The whole project has become quite amazing.
If there is anything I can ever help you debug let me know ... I am great at ⍳100 ;) btw - There is an #apl channel on freenode that has a few non-talking people in it enztec On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 15:43:31 +0200 Kacper Gutowski <mwgam...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2014-04-26 07:13:21, enz...@gmx.com wrote: > > btw if you can take a look at the FILE_IO code in > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-apl/2014-04/msg00269.html > > and give me an idea why the difference between c popen and apl popen - null > > vs no '10' at end of data still returned - i'd appreciate it > > The difference is that there is a bug in lib_file_io. > When FILE_IO[8] is called dyadically, return value of fgets(3) is silently > ignored and garbage is returned. > > -k > > > > Index: src/native/file_io.cc > =================================================================== > --- src/native/file_io.cc (revision 224) > +++ src/native/file_io.cc (working copy) > @@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ > buffer = del = new char[bytes + 1]; > > const char * s = fgets(buffer, bytes, fe.fe_file); > - const int len = strlen(buffer); > + const int len = s ? strlen(s) : 0; > Value_P Z(new Value(len, LOC)); > new (&Z->get_ravel(0)) IntCell(0); // prototype > loop(z, len) new (&Z->get_ravel(z)) IntCell(buffer[z] & > 0xFF); > >