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Subject: Re: How to build the *weakest* program

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 20:16:03 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 18:34:29, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Purely an accident.  According to the ISO C standard, it is perfectly OK for
>execution of the program to cause demons to fly out of your nose (an ancient
>interpretation from news:comp.std.c).
>
>The printf() function is varadic (variable number of arguments).  If you compile
>a varadic function without a prototype in scope, the behavior of the program is
>undefined.

The levels of truth:

4. What someone else tells you
3. What you read in a book
2. What you read in the documentation

and the highest level of truth is...

1. What the thing does when you run it

Russell

• Re: How to build the *weakest* program Daniel Clausen 00:49:18 08/21/02
  • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Russell Reagan 01:24:02 08/21/02
    • Re: How to build the *weakest* program [OT] Daniel Clausen 02:00:23 08/21/02
• Re: How to build the *weakest* program Dann Corbit 20:48:30 08/20/02
  • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Russell Reagan 21:23:02 08/20/02
    • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Dann Corbit 11:45:30 08/21/02

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