Aztec C (was: more eBay stuff)

31 May 2007

...
  [...] That
compiler was obviously
 pre-ANSI or something. 
 K&R C allows . . . 
There was enormous variation in C compilers.  And there were lots of
programmers that thought that anything that worked for them was therefore
legit.  For example, what would you expect from:
(and would you really expect it to behave the same on other compilers?)

N = 1;
A[N++] = N++;

When I taught C, I would always show the class a few examples of different
results from the same code in gcc, DeSmet, TurboC, . . .

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Aztec C (was: more eBay stuff)