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From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: hmm
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On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > with p=""  
> > *p != '\0' && p[strlen(p) - 1] == '[' _still_ will read a byte p[-1].
> 
> What?
> 
> 	IF p = ""
> 	THEN *p = '\0'
> 
> by definition of ""...

but p[strlen(p) - 1] will be p[-1]
Optimization done by compiler may skip it, but depending on that will be
rather dangerous.

--
Alex