Comparison failure in C compiler

Arthur David Olson ado at elsie.UUCP
Sat Dec 1 03:19:00 AEST 1984


noao!rwolff--
> The following program (sadly) prints the message...
> 	int n, i;
> 	float x[2];
> 
> 	x[0] = 1.;
> 	n = 10000;
> 	i = 0;
> 	if(x[i] > n)
> 		printf("finds %g  is > %d\n",x[i],n);

brl-tgr!gwyn--
> Why not use the current release of PCC instead?  That is what I do;
> I quickly got tired of bugs like this in the one shipped with 4BSD.

While some folks have the money and clout to keep constantly up-to-date,
others do have legitimate economic and legal reasons for using older tools.
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