From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: qsort() bug?  Or invalid usage???
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:04:28 +0200
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Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
> <388824A4 DOT 7E8CA268 AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>...
> >AFAIK, ANSI C explicitly allows to access an array one element
> >before the first one, provided that you don't write there.
> 
> Which can potentially produce page faults and segfaults.

You mean, if you write there?  Yes, that can produce unpleasant effects.  But
if you don't write, then ANSI forbids any segfaults.