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29 Jul 2024 16:25:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: All your radix are belong to us!  
From: Warp
Date: 23 Jul 2011 13:51:37
Message: <4e2b0a29@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >    Then these people either have to learn C properly, or not use it.
> > It really is a case of "take it or leave it".

> Yes. I'm simply pointing out to people who know C very well why it would be 
> that people who don't know it very well might be surprised. Heck, code like 
> that wound up in the Linux kernel, so I think it's save to say "it sometimes 
> surprises even experts", yes?

  But wasn't it a bug, rather than an intentional "trick" which the
programmers didn't realize would trigger undefined behavior?

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                                                          - Warp


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