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

[Jörn Engel]

On Tue, 28 January 2003 18:57:57 +0100, Martin Mares wrote:
> 
> 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.

This is interesting, but still dangerous, if the code ever gets
changed. You remember what a Mr. Murphy said about having several
possibilities and one of them leading to a disaster? :)

Jörn

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