Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 13:49:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu, terry@lambert.org, ache@astral.msk.su, Kai.Vorma@hut.fi, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tail dumps core Message-ID: <199510102049.NAA11050@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199510101945.MAA02622@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Oct 10, 95 12:45:13 pm
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> From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
> Subject: Re: tail dumps core
>
>
> memset(&i, 0, sizeof i);
> if (i == 0) {
> printf("your machine is normal\n");
> } else {
> printf("your machine is really weird, but allowed by the"
> " C standard\n");
> }
>
>
> How could this possibly be allowed by the C standard? I'm utterly
> confused.
A non-two's complement machine?
I defy you to purchase one, however. 8-).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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