Union Wierdness on Sparc C Compiler

[Wm. Scott `Spot' Draves]

In article <8618 at brazos.Rice.edu> kemnitz at postgres.berkeley.edu (Greg Kemnitz) writes:

   I am not sure if this is a *bug*, but it sure behaves strangely...  If you
   compile the following program on a Sparcstation or Sun 4, you will get 

   foo: a is -14249818

   (or something similar).  If you compile it on practically anything else,
   (ie, DECstation, Sun 3, Sequent, Vax) you get 

   foo: a is 22

This is because unions are passed by reference (pointer).  The program is,
of course, to blame.  try linting it, then shoot the authors of that 170k
line program.

Scott Draves		Space... The Final Frontier
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