[wplug] C compiling question

[bpmedley at 4321.tv]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, James O'Kane wrote:

> Did something like this ever work as expected with any version of gcc? I
> found this code in mod_throttle, an apache module to add quotas to remote
> users. I'm surprised that it is being distributed because at least for
> me, it doesn't do what I would want. I've changed things to strcmp(), so
> I'm all set in terms of getting it to work, but I'm curious if gcc ever
> compiled this so it would work?
>
> static const char true[] = "true";
> char *foo = NULL;
>
> foo = setfoo();
>
> if(foo == true){
> // do stuff if foo is true
> }

The following code works for me.  I'm using gcc 2.96 (the one that comes w/
rh 7.3).  What makes you think that it wouldn't work?

*** begin code ***
#include <stdio.h>

static const char true[] = "true";

char *setfoo(void);

int main(void)
{
    char *foo = NULL;

    foo = setfoo();

    printf("foo: %p - true: %p\n", foo, true);

    if(foo == true){
        printf("equal\n");
    } else {
        printf("not equal\n");
    }
}

char *setfoo(void)
{
    return (char *) &true[0];
}
*** end code ***

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