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From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: assembly code of the "strange error" - program
Date:	28 Jul 2004 20:10:38 GMT
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Sterten <sterten AT aol DOT com> wrote:

> how far am I allowed to go back, before gcc will crash ? 

Exactly zero bytes, but the question is quite nonsensical.  It's like
asking how much over the speed limit you may safely go before the
police will flag you down and fine you.

>  >int R[99]; // won't be initialised and will have different values

> I was told, they were set to zero ?

I told you that.  So go back to what I wrote, and you'll find I
explicitly said that this is only so in the very particular context of
your program, because you have all the definitions at file scope
(outside your single function, main()), where the rules are different.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

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