Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:57:57 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] in drivers/char/joystick/magellan.c |
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Hi!
> Without the patch below, the \0 terminating the string is written > anywhere. nibbles[] would be even better, I guess. > Can you check for stupidity on my side?
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.
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