From: brahms AT mindspring DOT com (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Detecting Windows and Windows directory from DOS
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:29:47 -0500
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Said richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com (Richard Dawe) in 
comp.os.msdos.programmer:
>By the way, I think you mean "in user code they _may_ lead to undefined
>behavior" rather than "in user code they lead to undefined behavior",
>which is a bit harsh. ;)

No, I meant what I said. Undefined behavior means you can't count 
on it to do any particular thing. I would *guess* that __DOSX_H 
would not be used for their own purposes by most implementations, 
so probably it's safe. But you can't count on it: it's undefined 
behavior.

It *may* lead to winged monkeys shooting out of your monitor, 
though in this particular case it's likely that the program would 
compile and run as desired. That's undefined behavior.

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