------- Comment #3 from sebor at roguewave dot com 2006-10-13 21:02 ------- You're right, I missed that. I confess I don't quite understand the rationale for this in the standard and I'm not aware of any plaform that causes problems for such calls but based on Doug Gwyn's response to my query the undefined behavior is intentional. Go figure.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28656