Re: prg2lout and 8-bit characters

[Michael Piotrowski]

Jeff Kingston <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 23:51:23 +0100, Michael Piotrowski wrote:
>   > 
>   > While formatting a document containing program listings (Perl, using
>   > Lout 3.25 on HP-UX) I just noticed that prg2lout seems to suppress
>   > 8-bit characters in strings (and comments, etc.), although, quickly
>   > browsing the source, it seems that they're *intended* to be allowed:
>   > PerlDoubleQuoteStringToken specifies AllCharacters, the interpretation
>   > of which in SetupOneToken() refers to MAX_CHAR, which is 256.

[...]

> This looks to me like a clear case of a signed char being converted
> to a signed int and causing a negative array index.  I'll look into
> it further and try to get it fixed for the next release.

Yes, that seems like a good guess to me.  Although I've been bitten by
this bug myself in my own program, I didn't think of it when I posted
the message (also, I had to finish these darn slides quickly).

Thanks

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Michael Piotrowski, M.A.                                  <address@hidden>