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Re: howmany -- What the F**k ?

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: howmany -- What the F**k ?
Date 2015-11-19 21:45 -0800
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James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> writes:
> On Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 3:14:23 AM UTC+7, Eric Sosman wrote:
[...]
>>      If you don't care, why are you complaining?  Vehemently?
>
> I do prefer systems that are unbroken, but it would be far easier
> to add the undef's myself than go through the mailing-list
> rigmarole, which would have no purpose than charity.  Any
> c.l.c'er is welcome to commit the charity themselves.  I'm reminded
> of the time I phoned a government official, explained a flaw
> in their procedure and was invited to submit a suggestion.
> ::whack::  If I did go through the rigmarole I'll bet I'd have
> to listen to noise like I got here -- Keith thinks I should
> keep including the stdlib.h I don't need and troubleshoot any
> further howmany-like bugs that turn up.  ::whack::
> If pressed I suppose he'd justify that with "Your program is
> non-conformant.  The compiler has the right to format your hard
> disk if you call exit() without a correct prototype."

I'll just mention that calling exit() without a visible declaration
has undefined behavior in C90, and is a constraint violation in C99
and later.  If your compiler happens to accept it, it will probably
work as expected.  What you do with that information is up to you.
My advice was offered in good faith.  You are under no obligation
to follow it, but if your response is "::whack::" I will not be
inclined to try to help you in the future.

And if you don't care enough about getting this problem corrected
to take the time to report it on the Cygwin mailing list, that
also makes me less inclined to help you in the future.  Again,
what you do with that information is up to you.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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howmany -- What the F**k ? James Dow Allen <gmail@jamesdowallen.nospam> - 2015-11-18 12:01 +0000
  Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-11-18 07:52 -0500
    Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 05:14 -0800
    Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-18 08:26 -0800
      Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-11-18 11:44 -0500
        Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-18 09:08 -0800
  Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-18 08:31 -0500
  Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-18 08:25 -0800
    Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-18 11:58 -0800
      Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-11-18 15:14 -0500
        Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-18 17:48 -0800
          Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-18 21:06 -0500
          Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-11-19 08:23 -0500
          Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-19 21:45 -0800
          Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-20 12:55 -0800
  Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-20 03:27 -0800
    Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Philip Lantz <prl@canterey.us> - 2015-11-21 20:40 -0800
      Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-22 10:09 -0500
        Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Philip Lantz <prl@canterey.us> - 2015-11-22 10:18 -0800
          Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-11-22 18:35 +0000
            Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Philip Lantz <prl@canterey.us> - 2015-11-22 13:10 -0800
          Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-22 13:57 -0500
            Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Philip Lantz <prl@canterey.us> - 2015-11-22 13:02 -0800
              Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-22 16:15 -0500
          Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-23 06:33 -0500
            Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-11-23 12:17 +0000
            Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Philip Lantz <prl@canterey.us> - 2015-11-23 21:09 -0800
        Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-22 12:34 -0800
          Re: howmany -- What the F**k ? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-22 16:18 -0500

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