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From: bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Interpretation of i=-1
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Date: 20 Aug 88 08:33:03 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <1124@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
: I wonder about this fragment:
:
: main()
: {
:       int i;
:
:       i=-1;
: }

: What does ANSI say about this? (Sorry, I don't have access to the draft;
: I'm not that involved, I'm afraid.)

The compiler might still deliver a warning, as there is nothing
in the standard that prohibits it from making comments on the
program, but it *must* assign -1 to i or it is not conforming.