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Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
Cc: dewar at gnat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, trini at kernel dot crashing dot org
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:43:13 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix
References: <20020104223614.41B01F319D@nile.gnat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201041530500.8279-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:06:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And it has to work (now, what _dereferencing_ the pointer does, that's
> obviously a separate matter)

Really?  You admit that?

Then why are we having this conversation?  strcpy dereferences
the pointer.


r~

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