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From: pratt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jonathan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: String Copy in THINK C 4.0
Summary: It does work in THINK C!
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Date: 7 Feb 90 19:26:34 GMT
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In article <6548@internal.Apple.COM> dwb@archer.apple.com (David W. Berry) writes:
>	Actually, it's not such a special case.  A legal pascal string
>may have up to 255 characters.  Any more than 127 is going to cause a
>sign extension problem.  Remember, there defined using char, not unsigned
>char.  All of a sudden it's a much rarer problem...

No, in THINK C you have

typedef unsigned char Str255[256];

so there isn't sign extension.

Jonathan

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