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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Array bounds checking with C????
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.163805.11232@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7611@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <26196@mimsy.umd.edu> <988@christopher-robin.cs.bham.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 90 16:38:05 GMT

In article <988@christopher-robin.cs.bham.ac.uk> cjr@christopher-robin.UUCP (Chris Ridd <RiddCJ>) writes:
>  Why is this?  I never could figure out why accessing the first
>element *past* the end of an array should be legal.

*Accessing* it is not legal, but taking its address is.  This is arguably
regrettable, but vast amounts of C code depend on it, and it is not a
serious problem to implement.
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