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Hello all,

it was very astonishing for me to recognize that the following piece of
source code is accepted by gcc 2.7.2 (Solaris 2.5) without giving a
warning if gcc is called in the following way: 

gcc test.c -o test

#include <string.h>

int main( )
{
  char* str = "0.12345678";
  double val = 1.11111111;

  sprintf( str, "%lf", val );

  printf( "Result: %s\n", str );

  return 0;
}

The generated binary crashes if started afterwards. Interestingly this
does not happen if you compile the source with cc from the Solaris 2.5
Compiler package or even with gcc 2.7.2 running under IRIX 5.3

Compiling the source with -Wall gives you a warning about implicitely
defined functions but no warning about the illegal sprintf( ) call.

Is there any possibility to avoid this kind of behaviour ???

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Greetings Volker (luckas@igd.fhg.de)