ARRGH! Does anybody maintain a digest??

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1670 at atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> hascall at atanasoff.UUCP (John Hascall) writes:
>       Why can't I use:
>
>	    if (free(ptr), NULL+1 = (char*)getc(ptr))
>	    #include-only-once-no-matter-what </dev/null>
>	    /*/* fascist C compilers */ "foo"[a] = '??!'; */
>
>       to set my overflow bit?  Geez, ANSI really screwed that up!

You can use it to set *your* overflow bit -- certainly it sets *mine*! -- it
just won't set your *computer's* overflow bit.
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