Re: problem with C and Gcc 2.95.3

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Doru Petrescu wrote:
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> 3. i can't understand how did it produced this kind of result ...
>    since printf("%d", ...) will print NUMBERS, and can't print a series of
> dots, like you can see in the output you attached.
>    so i guess the original program had %c or %s ... i put my money on %c ...

Which is why I let the message through.  Any reason why a %d stepping off
the end of a buffer would end up printing out the environment like that?
Or is it certain that the source that was mailed in doesn't match the
output?

                                                BB

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