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From: vch@attibr.UUCP (Vincent C. Hatem)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: QuickC
Summary: funny... mine doesn't
Message-ID: <43@attibr.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 88 22:14:19 GMT
References: <8808261424.AA11504@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: AT&T International, Basking Ridge, NJ
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In article <8808261424.AA11504@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, TURGUT@TREARN.BITNET (Turgut Kalfaoglu) writes:
> The other day, I was struggling with QuickC - a very simply problem,
> but really intriguing. Let me know if you can interpret this:
> main()
> {
>    int a,v;
>    a = 2;
>    v = square(a);
>    printf("%d\n",v);
> }
> square(num)
> int num;
> {
>   num = num*num;
> }
> OK? There is no 'return' statement in the function. However, it works!
> I get '4' as an answer. So I thought maybe it was keeping the result

I took the above program, copied it with the swipe of a mouse, and compiled
it...

I get:
$ cc test1.c -o test1
$ test1
-1073610208

Hmm... What's this QuickC??? An interpreter? I suspect that the compiler is
putting the variable "num" on the stack, which is being picked up by the 
main(). 

I guess AT&T got something right ;-}

Vince



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