Date: 24-JUL-1995 09:01:35 +0100
From: TAUPIN AT rsovax DOT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr
Subj: Bug(?) in p2c(?) or djgpp(?)
To: csiesr AT lmcp DOT jussieu DOT fr, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

Subject: bug in p2c (pascal to C converter) with Turbo Option

After several trials, due to spurious hangups in a TurboPascal
converted to C with p2c (version 1.21a2), I find out that the
concatenation of one string A to another B, namely:

   A:=A+B;

is sometimes translated in C as:

   sprintf(A,"some format with %s",B);

            
and sometimes with the strcat(...) procedure. And I find out
that the truncation posted in TurboPascal's doc, truncation
to the size of the target string, is not done with these C
procedures. And the result is overwriting other variables or
instructions which have nothing to see with the current
instruction.

Questions:
==========
 1. am I right, or is my knowledge of C too poor?
 2. did somebody experience these problems?
 3. has somebody made a correction to the p2c converter?

Daniel TAUPIN - taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr
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