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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Light note for the day
Message-ID: <1418@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 89 10:34:33 GMT
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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> Besides, if you think that your AST/286 is so good, run the following
> C program, if you get the output
> 1
> 70000
> Your C compiler wins my award for effort otherwise you won't get any
> words of sympathy from me...

[program compressed -dM]
> main ()
> {
> 	unsigned long i;	char *s, *malloc();
> 	s = malloc ((unsigned)70000);
> 	for (i=0; i < ((unsigned)70000); i++)	s[i] = i;
> 	printf ("%d\n%d\n", s[1], s[(unsigned)70000]);
> }

Award for effort?  I should think so!  >=17-bit chars, retrieving
something he never stored from an element he didn't malloc()....where
can I get a copy of this compiler? :-)

					der Mouse

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stupid
50%
rule