shortshort way of reversing the lines in a file

John White jnw at mcnc.UUCP
Fri Sep 20 09:55:23 AEST 1985


> I found that the "shorter version" segemention faulted when
> reading the 50th line of a file (and I tried several several
> different files).  I haven't tried to run the problem down yet.
> Does anyone have any ideas?

I assume you are refering to the program with the routine that reads
a line into a local buffer, recurses, and prints the line. This routine
requires a buffer on the stack for each line of the file. If you have
a 1k buffer size on your machine and a 64k segment size, then you will
run out of memory at around 50 lines.
- John



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