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<HR><H2>found tosym bug</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wed Mar  1 06:53:59 1995
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From: crag@serial.MIT.EDU (Robert de Forest )
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 04:57:00 -0600 (CST)

Brandon reported a bug some months ago involving lowercase and tosym.

I have found the cause but not the solution.

op_tosym does an ident_get(string_chars(str)).
string_chars returns a pointer to the start of the string data.
This string may not be null-termintaed, causing ident_get to be confused.

I do not know how to solve this efficiently. I would apreciate input on this.

Crag / Robert de Forest
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