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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: (char *)(-1)
Message-ID: <1989Aug4.122059.22859@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Keywords: pointers, casts
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Date: 4 Aug 89 16:21:00 GMT


pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:
>    char const magic_1 = 'j';
>    static char const terminator[] = "unk";
>    #define MAGIC_1 (&magic_1)
>
>Then  `return (MAGIC_1);'.  *If* the implementation gives you
>contiguous layout, then dereferencing `MAGIC_1' will give you `junk'...

Of course, there is a way to request contiguous layout in C:
    char magic_1[] = "junk";
    #define MAGIC_1 magic_1