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To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: tail dumps core 
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 12:45:13 -0700
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  From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
  Subject: Re: tail dumps core


  	memset(&i, 0, sizeof i);
  	if (i == 0) {
  		printf("your machine is normal\n");
  	} else {
  		printf("your machine is really weird, but allowed by the"
  		       " C standard\n");
  	}


How could this possibly be allowed by the C standard?  I'm utterly
confused.