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		apu on Jan 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deconstructing "K&R C" I think that depends on compiler, although it's been a while since I've done C, so I might be wrong.

zedshaw on Jan 11, 2012 [–]

It's fairly vague in the standard, but most of the time this is what happens so nobody hits the bug. Also, many OS are notorious for being loose with the stack and strict on the heap for various reasons.

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