[Rd] (HP-UX) scan: last line gets duplicated (PR#790)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Peter Kleiweg wrote:

> Peter Kleiweg skriver...
> 
> [about possible compiler error]
> 
> > Usually, bugs aren't. Usually, it's that one compiler just
> > happens to produce code and data that won't generate an
> > exceptional situation you just hadn't thought of, and you
> > won't notice the error until you use another compiler.
> > 
> > Which seems to be the case here.
> 
> [snip faulty patch, see other mail for correct fix]
> 
> > You can see what the problem was. The faulty code doesn't
> > prevent to test whether the characters *before* the start of
> > the buffer are white space, which can be anything.
> 
> I've been thinking about this. The original code was apparently
> based on the assumption that (at that point in the program) the
> buffer could never be empty (apart from white space). Maybe the
> assumption is correct, and this bug actually is an expression of
> an error somewhere else. An error with handling EOF, or
> something, or even a compiler error.
> 
> Should this be checked?

Could you send us your example file for this problem?  I think the
assumption is that a field will never be empty apart from white space.
in which case there is a simpler patch, as fields only of white space
don't put anything in the buffer.

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