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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: Difficulty fixing a regression in reading text files with MSVCRT
From:       Dan Kegel <dank () kegel ! com>
Date:       2009-12-29 2:32:34
Message-ID: a71bd89a0912281832s75cb2ed7h3da31890f6fe228d () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi Erich,
thanks for that test case.   I'm overloaded at the moment, but
if you file a bug, I'll try to have a look...
- Dan

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Erich Hoover <ehoover@mines.edu> wrote:
> In a surprise last-minute request it became necessary for me to get
> Athena Visual Studio running under Wine again
> (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=15183).
> A couple of commits to MSVCRT (that are needed for other reasons)
> caused regressions in Wine's ability to run this application and I am
> having a lot of difficulty getting Athena working again.  The commits
> that revealed the problem are:
> ebe4a9e321800fbe6d2004a640cd276a28d15c38: Remove CRs earlier in ascii mode.
> 7f3c70c52fe470d431a51b3363ed4f7336d5f7f5: Remove CRs earlier in ascii
> mode in fseek, too.
>
> After tracing down a lot of rabbit holes, it appears that the problem
> is somehow related to how the buffer boundary influences the file
> position reported by ftell.  I've attached a test case that appears
> related to the issue.  I can use a native MSVCRT for now, but I would
> appreciate some assistance so that this issue can be properly resolved
> at some point.
>
> Erich Hoover
> ehoover@mines.edu
>



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