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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!

Ahh, I may see what you're getting at here.  I was confused by
how you phrased it.