bug in Ultrix C compiler?

[Chris Torek]

In article <1376 at utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> battle at alphard.cs.utk.edu
(David Battle) writes:
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>% cat > foo.c
>int x = (int)(0.45 * 100);
>% cc -c foo.c
>"foo.c", line 1: illegal initialization
>%

Yes, it is a bug.  DEC copied it from BSD, where it was in PCC for
years.  It was fixed in the Tahoe release, or maybe a bit later.  I
expect DEC will pick up the fix in a few more years.
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