On Sunday 03 March 2002 01:00 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:27:17AM -0700, Ian wrote:
> > > In <sys/proc.h>:
> > >
> > > /*
> > > * pargs, used to hold a copy of the command line, if it had a sane
> > > * length
> > > */
> > > struct pargs {
> > > u_int ar_ref; /* Reference count */
> > > u_int ar_length; /* Length */
> > > u_char ar_args[0]; /* Arguments */
> > > };
>
> It might be worth mentioning that this trick is not actually allowed
> according to the C standard and in principle invokes undefined
> behaviour. OTOH, AFAIK the trick does work on all existing compilers,
> so while it is not standard-conforming it is quite portable.
I can't even imagine how one *would* write a compiler where this would
fail--does anybody know the putative risk that led ANSI to "ban" this (IMHO)
perfectly-reasonable bahvior?
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