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From: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Null-terminated C strings
Message-ID: <7085@apple.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 87 23:50:45 GMT
References: <261@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <164@sdeggo.UUCP> <174@quick.COM>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <174@quick.COM> srg@quick.COM (Spencer Garrett) writes:
>The general paradigm is:
>
>	while (the next character is within the interesting range)
>		do something interesting with it;
>	now look at what the uninteresting character was;

While this is nice in theory, in practice there can be some very subtle
problems with lookahead, especially if the string ends on a page boundary,
and the lookahead of the next character causes an access violation.

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