It was thus said that the Great Noel Chiappa via cctalk once stated: > > From: Alfred M. Szmidt > > > No even the following program: > > int main (void) { return 0; } > > is guaranteed to work > > I'm missing something: why not?
Yeah, I'm having a hard time with that too. I mean, pedantically, it should be: #include <stdlib.h> int main(void) { return EXIT_SUCCESS; } where EXIT_SUCCESS is 0 on every plaform except for some obscure system no one has heard of but managed to influence the C committee back in the late 80s. > PS: There probably is something to the sports car analogy, but I'm not going > to take a position on that one! :-) Interesting side-question though: is > assembler more or less like a sports car than C? :-) One thing for sure---assembly langauge (for a given architecture) is probably better defined (less undefined/underspecified behavior) than C. -spc