$NetBSD: patch-ac,v 1.1 1998/09/03 04:30:28 garbled Exp $
--- src/looper.c.orig	Sat May 13 12:32:00 1995
+++ src/looper.c	Wed Sep  2 21:10:45 1998
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include "timeit.c"
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <sys/param.h>
 
 unsigned long iter;
 char *cmd_argv[28];
@@ -84,14 +87,22 @@
 		perror("Reason");
 		exit(2);
 		} 
-	else
+	else {
 		/* master */
-		wait(&status);
-	if (status != 0) 
-		{
-		printf("Bad wait status: 0x%x\n", status);
-		exit(2);
-		}
+		wait(&status); /* NetBSD 1.3H and lower have a bug in dc */
+		if (NetBSD < 199810 && strcmp(cmd_argv[0],"dc") != 0) {
+		  if (WIFSIGNALED(status)) {
+		    printf("signaled: %d\n",WTERMSIG(status));
+		    exit(2);
+		  }
+		  if (WIFEXITED(status)) {
+		    if (WEXITSTATUS(status) != 0) {
+			printf("Exit code: %d\n",WEXITSTATUS(status));
+			exit(2);
+		    }
+		  }
+	        } /* NetBSD 1.3H */
+	     }  /* else */
 	iter++;
 	}
 }