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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Possible C compiler bug on 8086 machines
Message-ID: <1991Jan13.001828.18289@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3577@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <20722@netcom.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 1991 00:18:28 GMT

In article <20722@netcom.UUCP> mbryan@netcom.UUCP (Michael Bryan) writes:
>As far as I know, this is completely proper behaviour for C.  I'm not
>sure if all 16-bit integer versions of C behave exactly this way, but
>any I've seen do.

All the correct ones do.  Some of the more cautious ones warn you about it.
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