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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Bug in ANSI C??
Keywords: memcmp, memmove, strcmp, memcmp
Message-ID: <4233@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 88 22:06:47 GMT
References: <5331@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <241@oracle.UUCP> <2118@bsu-cs.UUCP> <16@dcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel)
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[ Define implementation-defined ]

> >with high bits set, since the result is implementation-defined.  On
> >this particular system [that] result is that all disk packs are erased and
> >the system halts."
>
>Hardly. Compiler implementors do want to sell more than a few copies
>of their product, and such behaviour would not be conducive to that goal :-)

:-( See the recent discussion about (a) no 8086 protection and disk-drive
    tables borked by erring large-model programs (a historical accident)
    and (b) the Microsoft "optimize by breaking" 5.0 compiler.

    ;-D on  (That's why I'll use a pencil instead of OS/2)  Pardo