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From: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: C bug causes double fault (actually double panic)
Message-ID: <2044@viper.Lynx.MN.Org>
Date: 22 Mar 89 07:03:31 GMT
References: <244@tree.UUCP> <9884@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer)
Organization: Lynx Data Systems, Eagan, MN
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In article <9884@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
 >In article <244@tree.UUCP> zarquon@tree.UUCP (Erin Filbert) writes:

   { Mention that this causes the system to crash deleted by Doug Gwyn }

 >>main()
 >>{
 >>	float x;
 >>	printf("x = %d", x);
 >>}
 >
 >You'll undoubtedly get a flood of responses correctly pointing out
 >that conversion of a double (promoted float) argument according to
 >an int format is incorrect.  Use %g or some such format specifier.

And you will probably get a flood of responses correctly pointing out
that what you say is irrelevent.  The original message mentioned that
he "crashed the entire system" by running this program (calling it
a "double fault" rather than "double panic"; which may have misled you).
It doesn't matter that the C program has a bug, it still shouldn't
crash the operating system.

 >The reason I'm posting this is so I can include a plea not to post
 >questions like this to comp.unix.wizards.

A true wizard carefully reads the question so that he might answer the
question actually asked, rather than just say the first thing that comes
to mind.

 >  Thanks.

You are welcome.
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