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SubjectRe: [BUG] in drivers/char/joystick/magellan.c
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.

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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