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From: maa@nbires.nbi.com (Mark Armbrust)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Fun C typos (was *p++ = *q++)
Message-ID: <223@nbires.nbi.com>
Date: 8 Feb 89 23:21:15 GMT
References: <777@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: maa@nbires.UUCP (Mark Armbrust)
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In article <777@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
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>   I guess it's just a knee-jerk reaction to "=" in a "while".
>
I just love typos in C.  One time I ended up with something like:

	if (a |= b) ...

The terminal I was using displays | as a broken vertical bar and I was
consistantly reading it as the ! it was supposed to be.  Finally figured it
out when I started looking at the generated code.

Mark