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Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
- Cc: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, <dewar at gnat dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <trini at kernel dot crashing dot org>
- Date: 06 Jan 2002 02:14:29 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201051150230.1965-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
| On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Florian Weimer wrote:
| >
| > Standard C has neither a concept of machine addresses, nor does the
| > standard require a uniform, linear address space.
|
| You haven't read the fine print. The C standard _does_ say:
You're quoting a *note*, that is a non-normative text which can be bogus
without affecting the C standard.
-- Gaby