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From: rfg@paris.ics.uci.edu (Ronald Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Does ANSI insist this is legal?
Message-ID: <25EB8750.5286@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 90 08:09:52 GMT
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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Must a strictly conforming ANSI C implementation be able to generate an
executable program from the following?


	int main ();

	short s = (short) &main;
	char c = (char) &main;

	int main () { return 0; }

The above code makes SystemV assemblers croak and it makes BSD linkers croak.


// Ron Guilmette (rfg@ics.uci.edu)
// C++ Entomologist
// Motto:  If it sticks, force it.  If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.