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From: rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez)
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Subject: bug? in turbo c++
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Date: 6 Mar 91 17:37:33 GMT
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the following program demonstrates this "bug":
main()
{
    int     i;
    long    j;

    for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++, j = i*2)
        printf("oh crud: %x %10d %x\r", i, j, i);
}

The third number printed is always zero.  It corrects itself if the
second formatting string is %10ld.  Is this a new ansi-ism?  Will this
behavior change to what my Unix cc fingers expect if I set it to K&R?
Is it a bug?  I can see them arguing that it isn't a bug, but I find
it an unpleasant nonbug at the very least.

-Roger
-- 
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting
 than the question of whether a submarine can swim" - Edsgar W. Dijkstra 
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