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Subject: Re: C'mon, guys!
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Date: Mon, 26-May-86 18:24:07 EDT
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> I'm interested in knowing why your sys5 passed it without an illegal
> pointer combo message, though.

I don't know what "it" refers to here, but if "it" is an assignment of a
pointer to an array of X to a pointer to a pointer to X, or something like
that, the reason why the PCC in question (and most other PCCs) passed it is
that PCC has a bug in it.  The type checking code in "chkpun" is completely
wrong.  It treats pointers and arrays as equivalent everywhere.  See
net.bugs.v7/net.bugs.2bsd/net.bugs.4bsd and net.bugs.usg for fixes.
-- 
	Guy Harris
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