diff -ur rexx-imc-1.75/HISTORY rexx-imc-1.76/HISTORY
--- rexx-imc-1.75/HISTORY	Mon Feb 25 22:37:30 2002
+++ rexx-imc-1.76/HISTORY	Mon Feb 25 23:15:50 2002
@@ -365,3 +365,16 @@
      longer allows x to contain a leading sign or leading and trailing spaces;
      datatype(x,'S') changed to test x against the syntax of a symbol
      instead of just testing the individual characters of x.
+
+REXX/imc-beta-1.76 4.00 25 Feb 2002 (another unofficial bugfix release)
+
+   * set LD=gcc in the Make file for Linux (fixes bad crash with glibc>=2.1).
+   * clear workspace in main interpreter loop (fixes potential memory leak).
+   * fix off-by-1 memory allocation in signal condition (causes occasional
+     bad crashes).
+   * fix invalid array access in rare case of traceput called with
+     an empty string.
+   * fix rare PARSE VALUE bug which corrupts the expression being parsed.
+   * PARSE bug with arbitrary expressions in template documented.
+   * assignments during parse traced with >=> tag.
+   * sign() function documented.
diff -ur rexx-imc-1.75/Make rexx-imc-1.76/Make
--- rexx-imc-1.75/Make	Mon Feb 25 22:37:30 2002
+++ rexx-imc-1.76/Make	Mon Feb 25 23:17:26 2002
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@
 # RXYEAR=`expr $RXYEAR + 0`
 
 # The date of this release
-RXDAY=1
-RXMONTH=1
-RXYEAR=100
+RXDAY=25
+RXMONTH=2
+RXYEAR=102
 
 #######################################################################
 # Where will the binary and library eventually end up?
@@ -376,10 +376,12 @@
         case $CC in
             gcc)
                 CCFLAG="-DFSTAT_FOR_CHARS"
+		LD=gcc
                 ;;
             *)  echo "Warning: I don't know the options for $CC"\
                       "- trying the gcc ones" >&2
                 CCFLAG="-DFSTAT_FOR_CHARS"
+		LD=$CC
                 ;;
         esac
         egrep -q tm_gmtoff /usr/include/time.h && CCFLAG="$CCFLAG -DHAS_GMTOFF"
diff -ur rexx-imc-1.75/rexx.c rexx-imc-1.76/rexx.c
--- rexx-imc-1.75/rexx.c	Mon Feb 25 22:37:30 2002
+++ rexx-imc-1.76/rexx.c	Mon Feb 25 23:11:05 2002
@@ -406,6 +406,7 @@
    while(ppc<stmts){
       lineptr=prog[ppc].line;
       ecstackptr=0; /* clear the calculator stack */
+      eworkptr=0;   /* clear the workspace */
       nextvar=0;    /* RXSHV_NEXTV starts from scratch */
 
       /* tracing - check for labels */
@@ -882,6 +883,15 @@
                      }
                      i++,
                      lineptr++;
+                     if (parselen[0]) {
+                     /* Copy the first expression to pull.  If it's not copied
+                        then the calculator stack might move when a literal
+                        pattern from the template is being stacked.  Bug remains
+                        for the subsequent expressions, which we hope no one uses! */
+                        mtest(pull,pulllen,parselen[0],parselen[0]-pulllen);
+                        memcpy(pull,parselist[0],parselen[0]);
+                        parselist[0]=pull;
+                     }
                      break;
                   case VAR: tmpchr=0,
                      getvarname(lineptr,&tmpchr,varname,&varlen,maxvarname);
@@ -1605,7 +1615,7 @@
    static char buff[255];     /* A fixed length workspace */
    int x;
    if(trcflag&(Tresults|Tintermed)){ /* Trace the result */
-      what[1]=(varname[0]?'>':'.');
+      what[1]=(varname[0]?'=':'.');
       if(!(up&&len))traceline(what,val,len);
       else{
          sp=allocm((unsigned)len);
diff -ur rexx-imc-1.75/rexx.ref rexx-imc-1.76/rexx.ref
--- rexx-imc-1.75/rexx.ref	Mon Feb 25 22:37:30 2002
+++ rexx-imc-1.76/rexx.ref	Mon Feb 25 23:15:08 2002
@@ -1315,6 +1315,12 @@
 As with RXFUNCDROP, this function will return zero if the name is
 registered either verbatim or in upper case.
 
+SIGN(num)
+
+This function returns the sign of the given number.  The result is 1 if
+num is positive and -1 if num is negative.  If num=0 then zero is
+returned.
+
 SOURCELINE([i])
 
 If i is omitted, then the result is the number of lines in the program.
@@ -2227,7 +2233,10 @@
 an instruction: symbol = token
 
 NOTE: Most versions of REXX allow only a symbol name between parentheses
-      where this version allows an arbitrary expression.
+      where this version allows an arbitrary expression.  However, this
+      is not well tested and some bugs may remain.  In any case, if
+      the arbitrary expression contains a function call which itself
+      uses PARSE, this may overwrite the original string being parsed.
 
 The one case in which the presence of a varlist may affect the
 translation from position indicators to column numbers is when one or
diff -ur rexx-imc-1.75/rexx.summary rexx-imc-1.76/rexx.summary
--- rexx-imc-1.75/rexx.summary	Mon Feb 25 22:37:30 2002
+++ rexx-imc-1.76/rexx.summary	Mon Feb 25 22:58:07 2002
@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@
 RXFUNCADD(rexxname,module,sysname) - load an external function
 RXFUNCDROP(function)               - drop an external function
 RXFUNCQUERY(function)              - query whether a function is loaded
+SIGN(num)                          - return the sign of the number
 SOURCELINE([i])                    - return a line of the source program
 SPACE(s[,[n][,pad]])               - evenly space words in a sentence
 STRIP(string[,[opt][,char]])       - remove leading/trailing spaces
diff -ur rexx-imc-1.75/util.c rexx-imc-1.76/util.c
--- rexx-imc-1.75/util.c	Fri Jan 22 00:12:10 1999
+++ rexx-imc-1.76/util.c	Mon Feb 25 22:51:12 2002
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
    if(rc && type==Enotready)lasterror=rc; /* save an I/O error */
    if(call||catch){
       if(sigdata[bit])free(sigdata[bit]);
-      strcpy(sigdata[bit]=allocm(strlen(desc)),desc);
+      strcpy(sigdata[bit]=allocm(1+strlen(desc)),desc);
    }
    if(call)delayed[bit]=1;
    else if(catch)die(type);
@@ -1070,9 +1070,9 @@
 {
    char c;
    static RXSIOTRC_PARM sio;
-   int cr=str[len-1]=='\n';
+   int cr;
    if(!len)return;
-   if(cr)len--;
+   if((cr=str[len-1]=='\n'))len--;
    while(len--)
       if(tracepos<maxtracelen)
          tracebuff[tracepos++]=(((c=str++[0])&127)<' '||c==127)?'?':c;