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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: C compiler bugs on 386 and 3B2
Message-ID: <1946@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 90 21:27:09 GMT
References: <522@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <522@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US> friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Steve Friedl) writes:

| Bug 2 is found on both 3B2 and 386 compilers.  Make a file with just:
| 
| 	static char	foo[] = (char *)"foo";
| 
| This causes a core dump on the 386 and a "compiler error" on the
| 3B2.  

  I tried it on V.4 (386) and it worked fine.

worked = compiler says this is garbage in and terminates normally.
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