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From: jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Compiler bug or gray area in C?
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Date: 29 Nov 90 14:35:54 GMT
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daveb@ingres.com (When a problem comes along . . . you must whip it) writes:

>Given this simplification:
>	
>	extern	double D, foo();
>	
>	foo( i )
>	int i;
>	{
>		double	x;
>		int	changes = 0;
>		do {
>	
>			x = foo( i );

Ooops, the recursion starts but but does not stop.
You recurse BEFORE you do anything that could stop it, like an if.