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From: baynes@ukpsshp1.serigate.philips.nl (Stephen Baynes)
Subject: Re: And you thought that the Pentium bug was bad!  (Get a load of this!)
Date: 1995/06/23
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Ronald F. Guilmette (rfg@rahul.net) wrote:
: -------------------------------------------------------------------------
: double d = 0.9;
:  
: int
: main ()
: {
:     double d = 0.8;
:     {
:         extern double d;
:  
:         printf ("%f\n", d);
:         return 0;
:     }
: }
: -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Supose instead one had written:

double d = 0.9;
 
int
main ()
{
    double d = 0.8;
    {
        extern int d;
 
        return 0;
    }
}

