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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Speaking of ksh
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Date: 4 Jun 88 22:05:46 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
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In article <15064@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> lvc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
-There is a similar bug in old 3B5 compilers.  It would accept null
-dimensions on all of the dimensions of a multidimensional array.  e.g.,
-	f(a)
-	int a[][];
-of course the program crashed and burned.

Of course the compiler "bug" was that it failed to diagnose this
incorrect C construct, not that the generated code was "wrong".