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From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: MSC 5.1 drops literals with Nulls
Keywords: MSC C 5.1 literals null bug
Message-ID: <437@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 89 00:59:46 GMT
Organization: Washington University (St. Louis)
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I have discovered what I consider a bug introduced into Microsoft C 5.1.
This was not the behavior in MSC 5.0.  I have a string initialized like
this:

char name [257] = 
          "\x00\x01\x02 ... \x0f"
          "\x10\x11\x12 ... \x1f"
          ...
          "\xf0\xf1\xf2 ... \xff"
          ;

Now in MSC 5.0, the string was initialized as I expected.  name[0]
through name[255] took on the values 0 through 255.  When I recompiled
under MSC 5.1 though, the first sixteen values were dropped (I assume
because of the 0 byte) and the rest of the values were shifted over.
This name[0] was 16.  I think this must be a bug.
-David-

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