Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Bug in DEC's C compiler(s)
Message-ID: <1990Jan3.163821.27312@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1528@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 90 16:38:21 GMT

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 *"...
>Am I missing something here, or is this a real bug?

Yes. :-)  What you've missed is that K&R2 describes ANSI C, and many C
compilers have not yet been updated to fully conform to the (draft)
standard.  However, this is arguably a bug -- they've had plenty of
warning about what they ought to be implementing.
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