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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:

> Roman P <invalid@example.com> writes:
>
>> 3) What happens when you overflow an int variable, that is, set it
>> to a value beyond its range?
>
> And here there is even more ambiguity since a variable (what might
> better be called a named object) can be set in two ways, and the C
> standard says different things about each!

I don't know what you're getting at here.  ISTM that there is
basically only one way of setting a variable (or named object
if you will), in the sense that different ways of "setting a
variable" all reduce to the same semantics (not counting things
like memcpy(), unions, etc).  What am I missing?