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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 01:13:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel
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On 25 Jan 2002, Xavier Bestel wrote:

> le sam 26-01-2002 ? 00:09, Timothy Covell a ?crit :
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > 
> > int main()
> > {
> >         char x;
> > 
> >         if ( x )
> >         {
> >                 printf ("\n We got here\n");
> >         }
> >         else
> >         {
> >                 // We never get here
> >                 printf ("\n We never got here\n");
> >         }
> >         exit (0);
> > }
> > covell@xxxxxx ~>gcc -Wall foo.c
> > foo.c: In function `main':
> > foo.c:17: warning: implicit declaration of function `exit'
> 
> I'm lost. What do you want to prove ? (Al Viro would say you just want
> to show you don't know C ;)
> And why do you think you never get there ?

I suspect that our, ah, Java-loving friend doesn't realize that '\0' is
a legitimate value of type char...

BTW, he's got a funny compiler - I would expect at least a warning about
use of uninitialized variable.

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