[Simh] Tape conversion

[Timothe Litt]

On 03-May-15 13:38, Cory Smelosky wrote:
> On Sun, 3 May 2015, Timothe Litt wrote:
>
>> https://github.com/tlhackque/backup36 contains a pre-release of the
>> tape36 component of backup36.
>>
>
> Works.
>
Good.  Thanks for letting me know.
>
> It seems to behave as expected, however it likes to ... dump core. ;)
>
> If the intput is already in a usable format, it will segfault.
>
What's a "usable format"?  How did it get there?  What did you start
with?  On what
OS (type, version, hardware) are you doing the conversion?

Please give me an exact command sequence that fails and tell me what's
in each file (format). 

I have converted a file from core-dump to high-density and back.  It
doesn't segfault for me.

I'll fix anything that I can reproduce...but if you don't provide a
reproducer, nothing will happen.

Or, run it with gdb and provide a bt.  (I prefer a reproducer; the optimizer
often provides misleading tracebacks by the time things have been inlined.)

> If no args are given, it will ALSO segfault.
>
Fixed on github.  Wasn't defaulting output file to "-" (stdout) when no
args specified.

No need to bother the list with bug reports, we can take them off-line.

Glad that you're out of the woods.



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