Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!husc6!mailrus!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Speaking of ksh Message-ID: <8016@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 4 Jun 88 22:05:46 GMT References: <300@hi3.aca.mcc.com.UUCP> <3870001@hpcuhb.HP.COM> <15064@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 9 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".