Speaking of ksh

gwyn at brl-smoke.UUCP gwyn at brl-smoke.UUCP
Sun Jun 5 08:05:46 AEST 1988


In article <15064 at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> lvc at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
-There is a similar bug in old 3B5 compilers.  It would accept null
-dimensions on all of the dimensions of a multidimensional array.  e.g.,
-	f(a)
-	int a[][];
-of course the program crashed and burned.

Of course the compiler "bug" was that it failed to diagnose this
incorrect C construct, not that the generated code was "wrong".



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