[fpc-devel] THE CAUSE OF BUG 3977 (read/readln bug)

[Tom Verhoeff]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:00:10PM +0200, fpc-devel-request at lists.freepascal.org wrote:
> From: lqs <lqs2004 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [fpc-devel] THE CAUSE OF BUG 3977 (read/readln bug)
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 16:40:50 +0800
> To: fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org
> 
> Yesterday I posted a bug report of the read/readln bug in the rtl, in
> the link http://www.freepascal.org/bugs/showrec.php3?ID=3977 . I
> examined the rtl source today and found what causes the bug. In the
> file fpc/rtl/inc/text.inc, line 756, there is a function called
> NextChar. The last two line in the function, "else NextChar:=false",
> the corresponding "if" is the second one. So I added another "else
> NextChar:=false", and everything works well.

This bug took me by surprise.  It turned out that the first program
that I tried with the 2.0 compiler ran into the bug, because (and this
surprised me) many of my input files had missing eoln on the last line
of the file.  Previously, I had no problems (under Linux, MacOSX),
so I was not aware of the formatting variations.  Actually, I am also
thankful that I discovered this :-).

Let me add to this my compliments to the development team for a job well
done.

	Tom
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