On 6/28/07, John Temples <piclist2@xargs.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

I think the more egregious problem is the one on the left side of the '='
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