Re: sdiff code error

[Andreas Schwab]

"Paul Edwards" <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> But writing to memory location 0 is not a good idea!
>>>
>>>> It doesn't actually do that.
>>>
>>> It doesn't?
>
>> No, it doesn't.
>
> What does it do then?  That's what the code looked like to me.

Try to evaluate the condition.

>> Signal handling isn't exactly the best specified part of the C standard.
>
> Text processing programs don't require signalling.

sdiff is not a pure text filter.

Andreas.

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