Aima.140 net.news.b utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!johnl Tue Apr 27 17:13:34 1982 mystery bits in readnews While looking for some mysterious bugs, I tried making the get, set, and test bit macros in readnews into routines that do the same thing but check to see if the bit number is inside the bit array. Amazingly enough, frequently it is not. Evidently this produces no problems, but it's sheer luck that it doesn't. Look at the place in readr() where bit is set to -1 for an example of invalid bit numbers. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.