Jorgen Grahn writes:
> It's somewhat believable. If I handled thousands of student names in a
> big C array char[30][], I would resent the fact that 1/30 of the
> memory was wasted on NUL bytes.
But you'd be wasting even more of the memory on bytes left unused when
the student's name is less tha
On Wed, 2010-06-30, Carl Banks wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2:44 am, Gregory Ewing wrote:
>> Carl Banks wrote:
>> > Indeed, strncpy does not copy that final NUL if it's at or beyond the
>> > nth element. Probably the most mind-bogglingly stupid thing about the
>> > standard C library, which has lots of mi
