From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jul 16 9: 1:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4595D14E47 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:01:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with SMTP id SAA26939; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 18:01:09 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 18:01:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Nate Williams Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/12663: Ambiguous if statement. In-Reply-To: <199907161530.IAA56397@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > No, they could not break silently, as the syntax is guaranteed to be > correct by the ANSI-C standard. If it broke, the compiler would be > broke and a number of other such code in many systems would also break. But it should be changed anyway. It is confusing. Nick (who loves Ada) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message