Compiler Recommendations

Kristian Erik Hermansen kristian.hermansen at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 19:00:11 EST 2008


On 03 Jan 2008 17:19:34 -0500, Kevin D. Clark <kevin_d_clark at comcast.net> wrote:
> Q:  If I write the code int i, j; can I assume that (&i + 1) == &j?
> A:  Only sometimes. It's not portable, because in EBCDIC, i and j
>     are not adjacent.
>                 -- Infrequently Asked Questions in comp.lang.c

The answer to this is also "no" because some compiler
randomize/reorder both compile and runtime variable allocations for
security reasons :-)
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
"Know something about everything and everything about something."

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