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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: For statement not portable? (was: What does Z["ack"] = 5 mean?)
Summary: Can't you take a joke?
Message-ID: <888@vsi.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 88 03:19:03 GMT
References: <14999@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <4700019@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <6945@cdis-1.uucp> <837@philmds.UUCP>
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In article <6945@cdis-1.uucp> tanner@cdis-1.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
> It is also possible that compiler writers will get the "for" loop
> handling wrong.  It is unwise to depend on "for" loops in portable
> code.  Use a "while" loop instead.

In article <837@philmds.UUCP>, leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
> The semantics of the "for" statement seem pretty clear, though (see
> K&R Appendix A, 9.6 & 9.8, 9.9). Could you be a bit more specific about
> how they get it wrong? I didn't see any compilers broken in this respect
> yet. If there are any, they would break a lot of existing code.

Hold it hold it everybody.  The only thing wrong with Dr.
Andrews' note is the lack of the :-).

The posting to which he was responding claimed that since some
compilers can't hack "int[ptr]" array indexing that it should be
considered nonportable. Well, int[ptr] is well-defined in the C
language, and if a compiler doesn't support it then the compiler
is broken.  Dr. Andrews is making this point with sarcasm.

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