From:	Rolf Campbell <moscoop AT NortelNetworks DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: qsort() bug? Or invalid usage???
Date:	Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:25:00 -0500
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > I don't think that a
> > good implementation should do this, but I can find nothing in the ANSI standard
> > that would prohibit such behavior.
>
> AFAIK, ANSI C explicitly allows to access an array one element before the
> first one, provided that you don't write there.

Couldn't that produce a memory protection error on a strict system?

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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)

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