Two more common C compiler bugs

[Lawrence V. Cipriani]

One of the most widely distributed C programs I wrote failed to
compile on a UTS(r) C compiler because it was missing a ; inside
a struct definition.  For example:

	struct a
	{
		int b, c, d /* ; */
	};

Another one I found a while ago is this:

	void exit();

	void error(v, eval)
		void (*v)();
		int eval;
	{
		...

		if (v == exit)	/* miscompiled line */
			exit(eval);
		else
			return;
	}

The compiler thought the comparison of v to exit was invalid.

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Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH,
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