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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: pst@shockwave.com, wollman@lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: tail dumps core
Cc: Kai.Vorma@hut.fi, ache@astral.msk.su, current@freebsd.org,
        terry@lambert.org
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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