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From: Frank Heckenbach
Subject: EOF is not true on reset empty file
Date: 28 Jan 2005, 14:16:50

Emil Jerabek wrote:

> Incidentally, I tried it without --transparent-file-names
> (gpc 20041218, gcc 3.3.3), and got:
> 
> [~/pas]% ./a.out
> Input file `namebook': namebook
> ./a.out: cannot open file `namebook
> ' for reading (No such file or directory) (error #442 at 8049e79)
> 
> I.e., the name of the file includes the newline which is necessary to
> terminate the input! This is IMO another bug.

Yes, this bug slipped in when I ported the file handling from C to
Pascal.

--- rts/files.pas.orig	Sun Nov 14 04:38:58 2004
+++ rts/files.pas	Fri Jan 28 14:16:01 2005
@@ -1154,7 +1154,7 @@
   if Tty >= 0 then Discard (CloseHandle (Tty));
   if (n > 0) and (Buf2[1] = EOT) then
     IOERROR_FILE (421, f, False, '');  { EOT character given for query of file name for %s }
-  if (n > 0) and (Buf2[n] = '\n') then Dec (n);
+  if (n > 0) and (Buf2[n] = NewLine) then Dec (n);
   Inc (n);
   Buf2[n] := #0;
   Tmp := InternalNew (n);

Frank

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