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From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
Reply-To: 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, Alex Belits wrote:

> 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.

 Hmm, sorry, I've not noticed that it's &&

--
Alex