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> From: sterten AT aol DOT com (Sterten)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 20 Jul 2004 11:38:02 GMT
> 
> (why else would the program run ?)

Because C gives you enough rope to hang yourself, if that's what you
want.

In a C program, you are supposed to know what you are doing better
than the compiler and the runtime environment do.  So they just let
your program run, and if it bombs, so be it.

That's why it is important to use -Wall and other warning devices:
they re4veal possible bugs before they actually hit you.

> I don't understand. 
> -g makes the program run correctly, while omitting it doesn't. (why ?)

Because your program has a bug that depends on the precise code that
is generated, and -g changes the code produced by the compiler.

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