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Re: Is this a bug in libc6?



In article <[🔎] 8767khi4y3.fsf@tiamat.datasync.com> you wrote:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1.6 Definitions of terms

> o Undefined Behaviour -- behaviour, upon the use of a nonportable or
>   erroneous program construct, of erroneous data, or of inderminately
>   valued objects, for which the standard imposes no
>   requirements. Permissible undefined behaviour ranges from ignoring
>   the situation completely with unpredictable results, to behaving
>   during translation or program execution in a documented manner
>   charecteristic of the environment (with or without the issuance of a
>   diagnostic message), to terminating a translation or execution (with
>   the issuance of a diagnostic message).
> ______________________________________________________________________

> 	Please show why my statement is incorrect wrt to the above
>  statement from the C standard. I said: "Corupting memory is not
>  acceptable behaviour! (Unless you document this)". The standard says
>  "permissible undefined behaviour ..."

It also says that the standard imposes no requirements.

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