Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: noalias, again Message-ID: <7508@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 21 Mar 88 11:48:41 GMT References: <7712@apple.Apple.Com> <7485@brl-smoke.ARPA> <10731@mimsy.UUCP> <7506@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 9 In article <7506@brl-smoke.ARPA> I wrote: >... in which case the first n bytes of the >result would not be what you expect. Of course as soon as I sent this off I realized that the string gets scrambled worse than that, so please don't flood the net with corrections. (The last n bytes get copied over and over down the array. I think.) This doesn't affect the point I was making.