Re: status of tn5250?

I apologize for for late reply.  No excuse, alas.

On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 17:11 -0600, James Rich wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2017, Terrence Enger wrote:
> > Segfaults
> 
> I've been using tn5250 for years on 64 bit without problems.  I have
> a few 

I love a puzzle, but not enough to investigate what I am doing
different from you.  Of course, if you know the answer ...

I am working on debian-stretch, which routinely does Address Space
Layout Randomization, I believe.  Could that be the important
difference?

> changes that I made a long time ago and made a tarball with them, 
> available here:
> 
> http://www.chowhouse.com/~jimi/tn5250-0.17.5.tar.gz

Despite the name, that appears not to be compressed.

> I haven't used SourceForge for a very long time and honestly I don't 
> remember the status of the code there.  I don't think I have the
> ability 
> to post anything there anymore.  Send your patch to this mailing list
> in 
> unified diff format and let's take a look at it.

Patch attached.

> 
> > (*) I did all my changes with only language-level knowledge,
> > without
> >     understanding what the code is actually doing.  So, a code
> > review

The caveat still applies

> I don't think 'make check' does anything normally.

Thank you.  That saves me some digging.

> 
> James Rich

Terry.
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