<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Yes, that is a bug, and your patch is all that is needed to fix it. Thank you very much for pointing this out! <div>—Jennifer</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 30, 2015, at 5:06 AM, KODAMA Chihiro <<a href="mailto:kodamac@jamstec.go.jp">kodamac@jamstec.go.jp</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear GrADS developers,<br><br>I encountered an trouble of gsfpath() function, and may found a bug in<br>the (nearly) latest GrADS.<br><br>GrADS script which includes gsfpath(), say,<br> ...<br> rc = gsfallow('on')<br> rc = gsfpath('dir1 dir2')<br> ...<br>never stops (I found it with GrADS ver. 2.1.a2).<br><br>It seems that the following line around line 3065 in gscrpt.c,<br> while (j<i) *(pcmn->ppath+j) = *(pvar->strng+j);<br>, should be replaced with<br> while (j<i) { *(pcmn->ppath+j) = *(pvar->strng+j); j++; }<br>to avoid infinite loop. I did not carefully read the whole source code,<br>and my understanding may be wrong. (if so, please teach me!)<br><br>I hope it may help improve GrADS.<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Chihiro Kodama<br><br>-- <br>=====================================================<br>KODAMA Chihiro, Ph.D.<br>Dept. Seamless Environmental Prediction Research<br>Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology<br>PHONE: +81-45-778-5623 (direct)<br>URL: <a href="http://kodama.fubuki.info/">http://kodama.fubuki.info/</a><br>=====================================================<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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