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From: kyriazis@herodotus.rdrc.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Bug in DEC's C compiler(s)
Message-ID: <6-HQ+=@rpi.edu>
Date: 2 Jan 90 18:38:01 GMT
References: <1528@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
Reply-To: kyriazis@herodotus.rdrc.rpi.edu.UUCP (George Kyriazis)
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In article <1528@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> battle@alphard.cs.utk.edu (David Battle) writes:
>I seem to have discovered a bug in DEC's Ultrix C compilers.  The bug
>exhibits itself on both vax and mips architectures.  The problem is that
>it seems to ignore objects declared as "void *".  Here is an example,
>straight out of K&R2 (page 121):
>
[ lots of interesting bechmarks ]
>
>Am I missing something here, or is this a real bug?
>
Last year I had the same problem with a uVAX II C compiler and I
think it is a bug.  The program compiled fine on suns.  I got
around it with a useless:  '#define void char' and now it works
in both architectures.  Since char *'s have the smaller stride size
(1 byte) everything should work fine.  

I wonder what DEC people have to say about that though..


>
>					-David L. Battle
>					 battle@battle.esd.ornl.gov
>					 battle@utkux1.utk.edu


  George Kyriazis
  kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu
  kyriazis@rdrc.rpi.edu
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