On 12/20/06, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ben Finney wrote: > > > > > \ "...one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was | > > > `\ that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful | > > > _o__) termination of their C programs." -- Robert Firth | > > > > An amusing .sig, but it doesn't address the root cause: As they had no > > way of testing for the end of a string, in many cases successful > > termination of their C programs would have been unlikely. > > Yet historically proven: the 'imperium' process they were running > terminated many centuries ago. > > Or did it fork and exec a different process? >
According to the C standard (16AD version), access past the end of an imperial era results in undefined behavior. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
