Nah mate, it's just some compiler flag that I didn't turn on (don't know which. my gcc-fu is fail since it's been really a long time since I touched C)

Just for my curiosity's sake, would you mind posting the code you tried that segfaulted?

Yeah I'm dying to see the original C code but it isn't on the page anywhere, AFAICT.

From the article, about the C version: "Mine hadn't worked, which I suspect is some sort of compiler issue."

Yeah I'm going to go out on a limb and proclaim that there's no way this was due to a compiler "issue" in gcc. Not that gcc is perfect, but there's no way it is barfing on one of these handful of line programs that does nothing but some logical operations and printfs.

Nope. The answer is still I suck at C.

Parts of the blog post was written late last night (about 3 am), and parts of it was written on my commute to work. I tried to rewrite what I wrote last night and tried to compile it on my work computer, and all I got were warnings.

So... can't recreate. Sorry

My thoughts too.

It's not a compiler flag, I guarantee it. Your code was simply incorrect. The only thing a compiler flag might have done was turn on a warning that would have told you what you did wrong (depending on what, exactly, you did do wrong).

Or didn't put a format specifier, which makes sense coming from languages that don't have one in their print statements.

Not putting a format specifier wouldn't cause a segfault.

Well, there is a difference between "format specifier" and "format string". The first argument to printf is the format string, the `%d` and `%s` type things are the format specifiers. I was talking about this

    printf("Hi", 45);

which will not segfault. If you meant

    printf(45);

Then you are absolutely correct, that would segfault on common machines.

I think that must be it. And it makes perfect sense how he would hit it. Example: http://ideone.com/MilaUN

Deleted my comment because you are, of course, correct. (However, I do suspect rayiner was referring to omitting the format string.)

I think so too, I just have bad reading comprehension and should have known but didn't.

Yes it will: http://ideone.com/DYmxj0