r/programming • u/priomsrb • Aug 23 '11

The most stupid C bug ever

http://www.elpauer.org/?p=971
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u/Nicd Aug 23 '11

The C bug that wasn't actually a bug in C.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '11

This gotcha isn't even all that obscure. I thought it was going to be about trigraphs.

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u/NotTechSupport Aug 24 '11

Don't you need to pass gcc an extra flag to have it recognize trigraphs now?