Re: Alcyon C Bug N++ (Alcyon wins again)

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From: Computer Center
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1987 03:03

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In article <8712051307.AA12109@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, aking@BFLY-VAX.BBN.COM (Allen King) writes:
> Has anybody seen the following bug in version 4.14 of Alcyon C? 
> 
> /*
>  * The Alcyon C compiler (Version 4.14) gets confused with the following 
>  * fragment, thinking that "y" in the assignment to F->y (line 10) is of 
>  * type "struct in".
>  *
>  * The fault seems to require that the same names be used in the two structs,

Please read K&R page 197 which requires that when the same member
names are used in different structs the types must agree from the
beginning of the struct through the member in question.

Thos Sumner       (thos@cca.ucsf.edu)   BITNET:  thos@ucsfcca
(The I.G.)        (...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!thos)

If he says it's "user friendly" watch out; he's a con artist.

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From: root@cca.ucsf.edu (Computer Center)
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Subject: Re: Alcyon C Bug N++  (Alcyon wins again)
Summary: Buggy program
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Date: 9 Dec 87 03:03:49 GMT
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