Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Jan 2003 22:03:53 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] in drivers/char/joystick/magellan.c |
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:47:35AM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Martin Mares wrote: > > | 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. > > The closest that I find in a quick scan is: > > ANSI/ISO/IEC 9899-1999, page 126, section 6.7.8, constraint 14: > > An array of character type may be initialized by a character string > literal, optionally enclosed in braces. Successive characters of the > character string literal (including the terminating null character if > there is room or if the array is of unknown size) initialize the > elements of the array.
Which means it was OK.
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