On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> A recent attempt of mine to rebuild FORMAT with OpenWatcom 1.9 showed
> that the existing makefile was insufficient. I did a quick rewrite of
> that and enabled all warnings ("-wx").
>
> From there, I cleaned up most warnings, and the binary was the exact
> same, no functional changes. However, two other warnings led to actual
> changes. One was just hiding some unused variables (TurboC-specific),
> so that was no biggie. But the other was almost definitely a bug where
> an "if" statement was rendered useless because it accidentally ended
> prematurely with a semicolon! So the condition was ignored and was
> always enabled. Minor bug (presumably!) but still worth fixing.
>
> I don't know if it's wise to spam this group with (relatively small)
> diffs (3.5k and 800 bytes, roughly), but feel free to ask anyways. I
> also am not volunteering to be active maintainer of this (although I'm
> willing to make at least one official release, if needed). I did email
> the previous maintainer, but I don't think it's fair to dump it all on
> him either. But obviously this needs some further testing (or at least
> a few extra eyeballs approving my minor changes).
>
> FYI, the apparent bug was line 139 in savefs.c (notice the extra semicolon!!):
>
> savefs.c(139): Warning! W111: Meaningless use of an expression
>
> if ((reserved_sectors < 1) || (reserved_sectors > 64));
> bad_boot_sector = TRUE;
>
> Anyone interested?
Hi Rugxulo
Thanks for making these fixes!
Could you share this update on ibiblio? I don't see it here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/format/
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