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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 20:25:57 GMT
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From article <1991Jan15.181224.4809@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, by ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (lanett mark):
> Well for the case 'Str255 a = "\pThis will work"' the \p is replaced with
> the length count _and_ the string is still a null-terminated C string.
> So you can do a strcpy and it will work for both Think and MPW.

What happens when the stuff between the "\p and the other " is 255
characters long?  What is sizeof (Str255)?  Does it differ, depending
upon circumstances?

Consider the case of statically initialized structures, where the
structure is an Inside Macintosh-defined type that contains a Str255
elements.  Where does that terminating null byte go?  On top of the
next structure element?
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Paul DuBois
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