arn...@skeeve.com writes: > "Dale R. Worley" via Bug reports for GNU grep <bug-grep@gnu.org> wrote: ... >> That is strange: I can't find any statement that recent C standards >> have removed the special case "initialize a char array that doesn't have >> room for the final NULL from a string literal". > > The bug is that the constants given for the sizes are each to small by one. > Count the characters in each string, add 1 for the final '\0', and > you'll see.
Yes, but ... Back when I was programming in C (and when I was involved in writing a C compiler), there was a specific clause in the C standard for that case, saying that it was OK, the characters went into the char[] variable, and the final NUL was to be ignored. When I said "special case" above, I meant it. I expect I've thrown away the copy I have of the draft of the original ANSI C, so I can't check that, and ANSI is uptight so there aren't copies of the current standard on online. But trying to search for statements about the *idea*, I couldn't find any online reference saying that some Cnn standard had removed that special case. Dale
