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From: blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Think C 4.01 bugs
Message-ID: <455@6sceng.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 90 18:04:34 GMT
References: <9510@accuvax.nwu.edu> <40562@think.Think.COM> <25571@cs.yale.edu>
Organization: Six Sigma CASE, Inc.
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In article <25571@cs.yale.edu> tarr-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (michael tarr) writes:
|char s1[10];
|char s2[20] = "A long string";
|strncpy(s1, s2, 8);
|
|s1 will not have a '\0' appended to the end. So far as I can tell this
|is not per the standard definition.

Yes it is.  s1 should only have a 0 appended if s2 is shorter than 8
characters.  It's not, so no 0 should be appended.  This is how strncpy
has been defined since the beginning of time (1970 or so :-)).

|Also sizeof returns an int, but malloc and calloc require size_t! This
|is hidden on a none highlighted single line of text... Caused me great
|pain to find this...

If Think C 4.01 claims to be ANSI conformant, this is definitely a bug.
-- 
Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP