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From: wolfgang@ruso.UUCP (Wolfgang Deifel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Is ``char c; strcpy(&c,"");'' ANSI C?
Message-ID: <1003@ruso.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 89 06:46:53 GMT
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mike@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Mike Haertel) writes:

>/* strcpy that doesn't compute &c + 1 */
>char *
>strcpy(char *s, const char *t)
>{
>       char *r = s, c;

>       while (c = *t)
>               *s++ = c;
>       return r;
>}
I think your strcpy doesn't work. First you don't increment 't', 
( while (c = *t)  is a 'loop-forever' if you don't modify t ),
and second, if you increment t the null-character isn't copied.

    Wolfgang.