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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pointer/array compatibility
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Date: 29 Sep 89 17:27:22 GMT
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Concerning the bogus acceptance of

	int **ipp;
	ipp = ;

in article <4967@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> cs211s14@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
(Julian Cowley) writes that he was using
>The Ultrix 3.1 cc compiler, which I thought was derived from
>PCC (i.e., reliable).

The Ultrix VAX `cc' compilers (all of them) are derived from buggy
4.2BSD VAX compilers.  One would think that, 4.3BSD-tahoe having been
out for several years, including its considerably less buggy VAX PCC,
DEC might have at least imported some of the more major fixes.
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