strange output in c program

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Jul 8 11:42:54 UTC 2020


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rahul deshmukh writes:

> #include <stdio.h>
> int main()
> {
>     int a = 300, b, c;
>     if(a >= 400)
>     {
>         printf("shouldn't print\n");
>         b = 300;
>     }
>     c=200;
>     printf("%d %d\n", b, c);
>     return 0;
> }
> =========================================================
> rdx at FreeBSD:~/Projects/Clang/chapter3 % make example6
> `example6' is up to date.
> rdx at FreeBSD:~/Projects/Clang/chapter3 % ./example6
> 300 200==> should be garbage value instead of 300?

300 is a perfectly valid garbage value :-)

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