Excuse me, here is the "reply all"
On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Pavan Maddamsetti
<pavan.maddamse...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for responding. At first, listp points at an uninitialized
> pointer-sized chunk of stack memory. Depending on the contents of ap
> and bp, it gets overwritten with either of those two pointers.
>
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Pavan Maddamsetti
>> <pavan.maddamse...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> /*
>>> * Here 's the code. Try commenting out the line that says "WTF mate!"
>>> * On my machine, the loop never returns. Somehow printf makes it work.
>>> * Compiler bug or not? Please compile and confirm.
>>
>> Compiler bug should always be the *last* thing you conclude, as it
>> means you've given up on looking for the bug in your own code.
>>
>>
>>> List *
>>> merge(List *ap, List *bp)
>>> {
>>> List *listp;
>>> List **last;
>>> last = &listp;
>>>
>>> for (;;) {
>>> if (ap == NULL) {
>>> (*last)->next = bp;
>>
>> Where does listp point?
>>
>>
>> Philip Guenther
