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From: kent@tifsie.UUCP (Russell Kent)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Some miscellaneous Minix fixes/improvements
Message-ID: <281@tifsie.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 23:58:39 GMT
References: <1503@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
Organization: TI Process Automation Center, Dallas Texas
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Posted: Mon Jan 18 17:58:39 1988

I compliment Peter on his thorough and precise postings!! (Don't we all
wish that all postings were so jam-packed with info!! :-).  Unfortunately,
I must take issue with this particular statement:

> CC/CEM/CG
> 	Like most people, I'm still using the 1.1 C compiler. I don't know
> if these are fixed for 1.2, but...
> 	The first problem is that constructs like:
> 
> 		char months[12][3] = {
> 			"Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun",
> 			"Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"
> 		};
> 
> include the nulls ("\0") at the end of the initializer strings, which
> is incorrect.
> Peter S. Housel		housel@ei.ecn.purdue.edu
> 			...!{inuxc,decvax,...}!pur-ee!housel

I refer you to the C bible (Kernighan & Ritchie) page 84:
    "It is an error to have too many initializers." ...
    "Character arrays are a special case of initialization; a string
     may be used instead of the braces and commas notation:
	   char pattern[] = "the";
     This is shorthand for the longer but equivalent
	   char pattern[] = { 't', 'h', 'e', '\0' };"

Based on the above statements, then the compiler, when faced with Peter's
"months" multi-dimensional array should have belched something to the 
effect of:
    ###:Invalid initialization: too many initializers

In all other respects, Peter's postings are accurate to the best of my
knowledge.

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