[Gllug] C function strcasecmp

[Tom Gilbert]

* home at alexhudson.com (home at alexhudson.com) wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 06:44:40PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> > >> > > 	*x+=~(*x)++;
> > >> > 
> > >> > Foul and invokes undefined behaviour; multiple modifications with no
> > >> > intervening sequence points ;P
> > > Actually, thinking about it - who cares if it's out of sequence? Doesn't
> > > matter :) (I think - assuming it wasn't being calculated in parallel,
> > > anyway).
> > 
> > You misunderstand the meaning of `undefined'. It doesn't mean
> > *anything*; it's not in C. The compiler is quite within its rights to
> > generate code that reformats the disk, or that runs nethack; it doesn't
> > just affect order-of-execution.
> 
> I don't think it is within it's rights to do that. The only issue here is

Undefined is undefined, an earlier version of gcc kicked off a game of
nethack if it encountered a #pragma iirc :)p

Tom.
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