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From: ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ (Ian Dall)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: foo[n]
Message-ID: <479@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ>
Date: 6 Feb 90 01:28:15 GMT
References: <sZn3bQO00XooAELeQa@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: ian@sibyl.OZ (Ian Dall)
Organization: Engineering, Uni of Adelaide, Australia
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In article <sZn3bQO00XooAELeQa@andrew.cmu.edu> jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Allen Boone) writes:
>Is it true that gcc interprets foo[n] as an array from foo[0] to
>coo[n]?

No it isn't true, and if it did it would be a bug. However, there may
be allignment restrictions which result in the space beyond the end of
an array being free. It is not surprising that such incorrect code might
sometimes work on one compiler but fail on another.
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