Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:09:37 +0100 | From | Thomas Pornin <> | Subject | Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7 |
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In article <20010124100240.A4526@athlon.random> you write: > I know this code has undefined behaviour at _runtime_. But I thought > you were obliged to allow it to compile. That was my only point.
There is no distinction between compilation and runtime in the standard. Actually, C could be interpreted, or a very smart compiler could also think real hard and replace the whole program by an equivalent printf().
Besides, a standard (C99) compiler will reject the 'main' definition. At least, the return type cannot be implicit anymore.
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