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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Is ``char c; strcpy(&c,"");'' ANSI C?
Message-ID: <10817@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Aug 89 21:02:51 GMT
References: <30@looney.twinsun.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <30@looney.twinsun.com> eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:
>	...  char c; strcpy(&c, ""); ...		(1)
>is not ANSI C, because strcpy calculates (&c) + 1, violating K&R A7.6, p.205,

It's not a problem.  The (proposed) C standard in effect guarantees that
every object can be considered as an array of one thing, and that it is
always legal to generate a pointer to the thing one past the last element
of any array, although it is not legal to dereference such a pointer.