X3J11 Pleasanton meeting summary

Dan Bernstein brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Mon Oct 8 13:02:58 AEST 1990


In article <1990Oct3.184359.2348 at sq.sq.com> msb at sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
> > 	int a[4][5];
> > 	a[1][7] = 0;	/* undefined behavior */
> > Dave Prosser (our Redactor) vigorously protested the above interpretation.
> My opinion is that the protest was right and the ruling wrong.

On what basis? If I declare char x[100][3], for example, the compiler
might want to allocate an extra byte for each element of x. Isn't this
allowed by the standard?

---Dan



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