C Compiler bugs (was Re: Speaking of ksh)

[Karl Heuer]

In article <15085 at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> lvc at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
>Following up from comp.unix.wizards are amusing C Compiler bugs:
>Then there was the bug where if you had a structure declaration right before
>main and forget to end it with a ; the program would core dump on exit:
>	struct blob { int a, b, c; } /* missing ; */
>	main(argc, argv) ...

Why should it be considered a "compiler bug" when a syntactically correct
program containing a user bug dumps core?  It seems to me that the appropriate
"fix" is to make sure that lint complains about the mismatched declaration.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
Followups to comp.lang.c.