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Article #1829are arrays allowed in strictly conforming programs?
From: Hans van Eck
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 1990 13:11
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 1990 13:11
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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. -- Hans van Eck, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Voice: +31 20 5485302 Email: eck@cs.vu.nl
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!eck@cs.vu.nl From: eck@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Eck) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: are arrays allowed in strictly conforming programs? Message-ID: <7913@star.cs.vu.nl> Date: 12 Oct 90 13:11:45 GMT Sender: news@cs.vu.nl Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam Lines: 20