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From: Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] quiz
Date: Tue,  5 Jun 2007 17:43:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1181090589.4241.41.camel@work.sfbay.sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10706051736q4e1852a9g3f54d8f6e2d182b4@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 17:36 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> /* catch the bug */
>
> struct x {
>   int botch:1;
> };
>
> fun(){
>   struct x x;
>   x.botch = 0;
>   x.botch = 1;
> }
>
> ok, what's the bug? anyone? I just found this out today. (no, I don't
> use bitfields, but insane people do)

  signed vs. unsigned int perhaps (meaning that x.botch becomes < 0
after the last assignment) ?

Thanks,
Roman.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-06  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-06  0:36 ron minnich
2007-06-06  0:43 ` Roman Shaposhnick [this message]
2007-06-06  3:41   ` ron minnich
2007-06-06  3:48     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2007-06-06  4:18       ` ron minnich
2007-06-06  4:30         ` Kris Maglione
2007-06-06  4:36           ` Kris Maglione
2007-06-06  7:05             ` Bruce Ellis
2007-06-06  8:15             ` W B Hacker
2007-06-06  1:07 ` Paul Lalonde
2007-06-06  1:16   ` Roman Shaposhnick
2007-06-06  8:49 ` [9fans] quiz prem
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-02  5:55 [9fans] quiz rob pike, esq.

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