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From: rhialto@cs.kun.nl (Olaf'Rhialto'Seibert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Compiler code (was a flame fest)
Message-ID: <2923@wn1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 5 Apr 91 15:28:14 GMT
References: <1991Apr2.100807.13471@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <mykes.1274@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG> <1991Apr3.042457.3703@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Apr3.042457.3703@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> someone writes:
>>CopyString(s,d)
>>char	*s,*d;
>>{
>>	while(*s) { *d++=*s++; }
>>}

Note that this function has an incorrect name. In C, a string is 0-terminated.
This does not copy the 0, so the copy is not a string.

This bug was already present in the very first program that started this
discussion, and I doubt the author was aware of this subtle but
dangerous bug.

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Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert                               rhialto@cs.kun.nl
How can you be so stupid if you're identical to me? -Robert Silverberg