Bulletin number:  43
Products affected: D605A
Description: Problem with Vax hosted simulator
Component: isim
Date: Wed Mar 28 13:32:21 BST 1990
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A problem has been found when using the VAX hosted simulator.
Although it is D605A the tape is marked D605B.  (The version on the
tape marked D605A did not work at all).  If isim is started with no
parameters the version should be 2.7-1.

If the program below is run on the VAX hosted simulator it will cause
isim to crash.  The program is very sensitive to changes.  Almost any
change will make to problem go away.

The following piece of code has been reduced from a larger program.

#INCLUDE "hostio.inc"
PROC bin2hex (CHAN OF SP fs, ts, []INT memory)
  #USE "hostio.lib"
  [2]BOOL opt.exists:
  [2][2]INT opt.param:
  [sp.max.buffer.size]BYTE line:
  [sp.max.buffer.size]BYTE infile, outfile:
  INT32 instreamid, outstreamid:
  SEQ
    so.write.string(fs, ts, "*c*n*nBIN2HEX*c*n*n")
    so.exit(fs, ts, sps.success)
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