Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:10:42 +0100 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] in drivers/char/joystick/magellan.c |
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On Tue, 28 January 2003 18:57:57 +0100, Martin Mares wrote: > > As far as I remember, the ANSI C permits initialization of a char array > with a string of the same length and defines that the trailing \0 is > dropped in such cases. However, I cannot quote the right chapter and > verse by heart nor am I sure it's still permitted by C99, so better > check yourself.
This is interesting, but still dangerous, if the code ever gets changed. You remember what a Mr. Murphy said about having several possibilities and one of them leading to a disaster? :)
Jörn
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