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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: String Copy in THINK C 4.0
Message-ID: <10117@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 8 Feb 90 07:29:55 GMT
References: <2083@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> <2826@draken.nada.kth.se> <34105@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <2834@draken.nada.kth.se> <6548@internal.Apple.COM> <16666@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
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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.

In article <16666@boulder.Colorado.EDU> pratt@boulder.Colorado.EDU
(Jonathan Pratt) writes:
>No, in THINK C you have
>
>typedef unsigned char Str255[256];
>
>so there isn't sign extension.

The same in MPW C 3.0.

Perhaps our colleagues are thinking of older versions?
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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