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From: boyne@hplvli.HP.COM (Art Boyne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: long conversion of short expression.
Message-ID: <340013@hplvli.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Aug 89 14:58:47 GMT
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chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> it can do anything it wants when the result is
>implementation-defined or undefined.  I like to use ridiculous actions,
>such as having the computer explode, or change into a butterfly, as
>examples of permitted behaviour.

Or you could do what I actually saw one FORTRAN compiler do one day:
the compiler lost a pointer to its symbol table, and when it tried to sort
the symbol table for the cross reference, it instead sorted itself by opcode.
Made for an interesting core dump.

Art Boyne, boyne@hplvla.hp.com