are arrays allowed in strictly conforming programs?
Hans van Eck
eck at cs.vu.nl
Fri Oct 12 23:11:45 AEST 1990
In the December '88 draft of the standard in section 4.11.1, there is a line
that says:
If an array is accessed beyond the end of *an* object, the behavior is
undefined. (emphasis mine)
Isn't this unambiguously saying that strictly conforming programs are hardly
allowed to access arrays at all?
An example:
int a[2];
a[1] = 1;
This would be illegal since a[1] lies beyond a[0], which is an object.
Just curious.
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Hans van Eck, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit,
De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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