Cnews on System V/AT: "expression causes compiler loop"

[Mike Mitchell]

In article <3056 at splut.conmicro.com>, jay at splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
> 
> I'm trying to install C news, at the patchlevel 7/13 Nov 1989 level, on
> my System V/AT 2.4 system. Trying to compile relay/hdrdefs.c, I get:
> 
> The relevant code is:
> #ifndef offsetof
> #define offsetof(type, mem) ((char *)&((type *)NULL)->mem - (char *)NULL)
> #endif
> 
> Any ideas about how to simplify this one? Am I the only person to run
> into this?
> 

#ifndef	offsetof
#define offsetof(type, mem) (int)&(((type *)0)->(mem))
#endif

Also be sure that you compile relaynews large model. It has the tendancy
to blow up on really huge incoming batches in small model. Use the dbz
routines in the contribution directory.

Cnews operates fairly well on one of these Uport '286 things.

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