On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, William Chops Westfield wrote:

>>> My last complaint was about:
>>>
>>>      char g_md_buffered[9]={"", "", "", "", "", "",
>>> "", "", ""};
>>
> It's apparently not incorrect C (this claim sparked some
> discussion), though I would have hoped
> that the picker static analysis tools would have complained
> that it didn't look "right."  I only found it cause I was
> using a fussier compiler.

Yes, it is legal C, even though the results are meaningless.  The
author was unbelievably lucky if that array was initialized with
zeros, if that was the intent.

I threw that code at several compilers and static analysis tools, and
even the most brain-dead issued a warning.  Which compiler let that
slide silently?

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John W. Temples, III
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