Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 09:21:24 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: pst@shockwave.com, wollman@lcs.mit.edu Cc: Kai.Vorma@hut.fi, ache@astral.msk.su, current@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: tail dumps core Message-ID: <199510102321.JAA10262@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> 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.
Anything not disallowed by the standard is allowed. There doesn't
seem to be anything to stop a perverse implementation from storing
(e.g.) 0 as 1 and 1 as 0.
Bruce
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