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From: gorpong@telxon.UUCP (Gordon C. Galligher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Correction, a[33]
Summary: No, it was right the first time.
Message-ID: <55@telxon.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 89 22:13:40 GMT
References: <5819@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: gorpong@telxon.UUCP (Gordon C. Galligher)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Telxon Corporation, Akron Ohio
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In article <5819@microsoft.UUCP> t-iaind@microsoft.UUCP (Iain Davidson) writes:
>..
>
>Something that went un-noticed in a few messages:
>
>char a[33]
>
>is not an array of 33*sizeof (int)  but really 34 slots !!!!!
>
>Remember C is start base 0 not 1.
>
>0..33 = 34 slots of int's.
^^^^^^^^^^^
int foo[33] :==> 0..32, not 0..33.

K&R1: Page 20

  1.6  Arrays
  ...
  The declaration
	
    int ndigit[10];
	   
  declared ndigit to be an array of 10 integers.  Array subscripts always start
  at zero in C (rather than 1 as in Fortran or PL/1), so the elements are
  ndigit[0], ndigit[1], ..., ndigit[9].

[**] K&R2: Page 22 is exactly the same excluding the part in parentheses.

		-- Gordon.


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