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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: cc bug?
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Date: 12 Jul 90 20:18:25 GMT
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In article <2742@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
>RISC/os 4.01
>cc 2.0
>
># include	<stdio.h>
>
>main ()
>{
>char	*str;
>
>	fprintf (stderr, "why does this compile?\n"< str);
>}
>
>Note the < rather than , after the \n ... it compiles but dumps core when
>run.  Why does it even compile?

It compiles because

	"why does this compile?\n" < str

is a boolean-valued expression, and your fprintf is now missing a third
argument, which is why it dumps core.
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