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From: cbp@foster.avid.oz (Cameron Paine)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Evaluation of expressions involving string literals
Keywords: string literal; expression; pointer arithmetic; broken compiler?
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.015313.20179@foster.avid.oz>
Date: 12 Oct 90 01:53:13 GMT
References: <1990Oct11.064854.12867@foster.avid.oz>
Organization: Avid Systems Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia.
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In <1990Oct11.064854.12867@foster.avid.oz> I wrote:

>I'm porting some code to an ANSI-conforming compiler and have encountered
>an anomaly which my reading of K&R(2) and H&S(2) hasn't resolved...

Email respondents have unequivocally indicated that the compiler is broken.
Thanks to Doug Gwyn, Bill Wells and Steve Clamage (and any others who's
mail I've yet to receive -- it takes a while to get Down Under). I guess
it's time to file YACB report.

Cameron
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