system's gcc bug?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040331101834.GA21652 at dyn-099164.nbw.tue.nl>, Rene Ladan writes:
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>Hi,
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>I'm getting runtime errors when executing the following program and
>declaring one of the arrays:
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>#include <stdio.h>
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>int main(void) {
>/*	int a[4] = { 0, 1, 2, 3 };   enable this line to get a buserror */
>	int *i;
>/*	int b[4] = { 0, 1, 2, 3 };   enable this line to get a segfault */
>	for (*i = 0; *i < 4; (*i)++)
>		printf("%p %i\n", i, *i);
>	return(0);
> }

You have allocated no storage backing for *i, so your for loop writes
the integers 0...3 to a random place in memory.

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