Bug in DEC's C compiler(s)
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Thu Jan 4 03:38:21 AEST 1990
In article <1528 at utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> battle at alphard.cs.utk.edu (David Battle) writes:
>I seem to have discovered a bug in DEC's Ultrix C compilers. The bug
>exhibits itself on both vax and mips architectures. The problem is that
>it seems to ignore objects declared as "void *"...
>Am I missing something here, or is this a real bug?
Yes. :-) What you've missed is that K&R2 describes ANSI C, and many C
compilers have not yet been updated to fully conform to the (draft)
standard. However, this is arguably a bug -- they've had plenty of
warning about what they ought to be implementing.
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