Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:29:56 -0500 Message-ID: <4E1A6E37.6499@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:29:59 -0400 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Arithmetic overflow checking References: <015aeb15-57db-48ab-9cd4-77f8448b632f@w24g2000yqw.googlegroups.com> <2rydnez7l-H5BYnTnZ2dnUVZ_vGdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <9LWdnZH2hdfmyYvTnZ2dnUVZ_vidnZ2d@posted.palinacquisition> <3797038f-22d1-40b2-8c12-60db5a0976b8@t5g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <4E19791F.3E45@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 13 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.156.228.229 X-Trace: sv3-r9KzyJ5RDXhYr4Hd2g7rwV1FdHWSkZ6JbeWDW+7QGeakyAiAwfvVj0FSdmwx8qR6iZNej3HJaD0Pbwn!vWMnamycS2HIyNzqGbMmDFkMh+T9sBxXeJXfjrzXDXimMfWdWL8vmUVi3Z4DxjENU0KMUL+JDxSu!P7khRDiJRhM= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1830 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6066 comp.lang.c:8111 China Blue Dolls wrote: > > In article <4E19791F.3E45@mindspring.com>, pete wrote: > > In C, > > the size of an array is part of the type of the array. > > extern char s[]; That's called an "incomplete type". -- pete