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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
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Subject: Re: Str255 in C
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Date: 15 Jan 91 17:14:04 GMT
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From article <47171@cci632.UUCP>, by ph@cci632.UUCP (Pete Hoch):
> Giving benefit of the doubt, this reply suffers from less than precise
> wording.  In reality the "\p" is only a place holder for the pascal
> style character count.  I believe the compiler supplies this number
> so it is evaluated very early on.  However this is still a c string!
> That means it is still NULL terminated.

Nope.  Depends on the compiler, so check your manual first.

And if you want your code to be portable, don't write code that
*depends* on the compiler's behavior.
--
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu