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From: gtchen@faline.bellcore.com (George T. Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Allocation for pointers
Message-ID: <1357@faline.bellcore.com>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 09:39:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: faline.1357
Posted: Fri Sep  4 09:39:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 17:28:25 EDT
Reply-To: gtchen@faline.UUCP (George T. Chen)
Organization: Bellcore MRE
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I have a question about the following program:

main()
{	char *a;
	a = "text";
	recurs(a);
}

void recurs(a);
char *a;
{	strcat(a,"more text");
	if (some conditional test) recurs(a);
}

As I understand it, I'm passing the address of the variable a into
the routine recurs.  At no point do I specify how large of a buffer
a will eventually point to.  Is there a limit and is it compiler
dependent?


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