Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ARRGH! Does anybody maintain a digest??
Message-ID: <1989Oct25.164257.74@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <285@grape1.UUCP> <11405@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1670@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 89 16:42:57 GMT

In article <1670@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> hascall@atanasoff.UUCP (John Hascall) writes:
>       Why can't I use:
>
>	    if (free(ptr), NULL+1 = (char*)getc(ptr))
>	    #include-only-once-no-matter-what </dev/null>
>	    /*/* fascist C compilers */ "foo"[a] = '??!'; */
>
>       to set my overflow bit?  Geez, ANSI really screwed that up!

You can use it to set *your* overflow bit -- certainly it sets *mine*! -- it
just won't set your *computer's* overflow bit.
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