From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: printf bug ???
Date:	Tue, 09 Jun 1998 18:33:41 -0400
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Erik Max Francis wrote:
> 
>     *p++ = getchar(s);
> 
> are undefined.  "Undefined," by the ANSI standard, means that _no_
> restrictions are imposed -- crashing or emailing the President of the
> United States is perfectly ANSI compliant.

Slight modification here:  that last expression _is_ defined, because p
is postfix-incremented only once in the entire expression.  The return
value from getchar() will be stored in *p, and then p will be
incremented.  Also, getchar() doesn't take any parameters.

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