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Article #245Re: Some Comments & Questions about ANSI C
From: John Woods
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1989 01:48
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1989 01:48
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In article <13680@haddock.ima.isc.com>, karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
I> In article <GEOFF.89Jun11231924@onyx.cs.warwick.ac.uk> geoff@cs.warwick.ac.uk (Geoff Rimmer) writes:
> > One of these days, I'm going to write an ANSI C compiler. And whenever
l> > it encounters some code whose behavior is undefined (such as
i> > fflush(stdin);) it will draw a picture of Snow White (tm) on the
k> > screen, and then play Rule Brittania 3 times, before crashing with a
e> > segmentation fault, and leaving a
> > while(1){fork();malloc(UINT_MAX);}
i> > running in the background.
t>
.> Quality of Implementation issues are usually resolved by the free market.
Indeed they are.
Geoff, when you finish writing that compiler, I want TWO of them.
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