On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:55:51PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > But do a
> >
> > char c[4] = "0123";
> >
> > and - a wonder - no warning.
>
> And this is a correct behaviour. You get a valid initialier for array;
> see 6.7.8[14] for details. Moreover, that kind of code is often
What is 6.7.8[14]? If you're referring to the ANSI standard, then,
unfortunately, I don't have it.
> quite deliberate.
Worse yet, K&R explicitely writes:
<quote>
char pattern[] = "ould";
is a shorthand for the longer but equivalent
char pattern[] = { 'o', 'u', 'l', 'd', '\0' };
</quote>
In the latter spelling gcc < 4.2 DOES warn too.
Thanks
Guennadi
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