[OT] Undefined behavior?

My understanding is that the following program exhibited undefined
behavior until very recently:

#include <stdio.h>

int main( void )
{
printf( "Red Sox win! Red Sox win!\n" );
return 0;
}

 

So your understanding is that the program below used to have undefined
behaviour, but not anymore? It is never or always usually.

So, what is meant to be wrong with the above?

 

Heh, forget it.

 

I think that it's a reference to one of those minority sports.

 

He forgot to include:

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I am a stonefaced engineer, I don't do jokes.

 

It's not exactly undefined behaviour. It's just that the
string in the printf statement is invalid.

 

Baseball fans will understand.

Christopher seems to be trying to display the euphoria he
shares with many, while also trying to stay topical.

-Mike

 

Not any more.

-Mike

 

Not at all.

Now if you make that printf:

printf( "Red Sox World Champs!\n" );

nasal demons might ensue. Or might not. We'll see.

--ag

[Did `No No Nanette' make any money?]

 

For still greater topicality, here's a new version
of an old, familiar program:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
printf ("Hello, World Series!\n");
return "Yankees win" == "sure thing";
}

 

Nope. It printed a line of text which is just as relevant to the real
world as "Hello, world!". It never ceases to amuse me how you USAliens
can get even more worked up about a game of rounders than my compatriots
get about chasing an inflated bladder.
(And anyway, surely they didn't get to the semi-final by losing all
their previous games?)

Richard

 

Come now, I think you have us outclassed with your soccer riots.

 

*More* worked up? Perhaps US beats the Netherlands, but for some
parts of Europe I think the football hooligans still have the edge
over us. (And even if they didn't, football fans in other parts of
the world have shown considerably more craziness that fans of any
major US sport. Bulgatz documents South American and African wars
started over football games, in his _Ponzi Schemes, Invaders from
Mars, and More Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of
Crowds_, which despite the bulky title is a fine sequel of sorts to
Mackay's classic. I suspect US fans are in the main too fat and lazy
to get a good riot up.)

 

Well, imprimis, it seems your baseball hooligans are quite capable of
causing unpleasant riots themselves, and secundis I wasn't really
talking about the idiots who call themselves fans but do nothing but
cause aggro, but about the _real_ fans. I've never seen any of those
post to usenet with a club .sig (though they probably do in sports
groups), but recently I've spotted several Sox fans who can't control
their excitement even in completely unrelated groups.
Now, I can understand _why_ they're excited. I mean, it's almost like
England winning a major football tournament...

Richard