"James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, this is undefined behaviour in terms of the ISO C standard. But > if your comment accurately implies that there are actual systems > on which this technique fails to work then we have a widespread > problem;
That is correct, many people get that wrong. Undefined behaviour means that it is impossible to predict the result. > including at least GNU tar Then it needs to be fixed. > and I think also gnulib and coreutils. The authors of gnulib and coreutils are well aware of the problem. > See in particular the Texinfo documentation for Autoconf. Please expand. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
