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Re: string literals vs char*

From Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: string literals vs char*
Date 2014-12-27 17:25 +0000
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <20141227092433.485@kylheku.com> (permalink)
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On 2014-12-27, Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> writes:
>>String literals have the type char[n], where n is 1 more than the number
>
>   »N1570 6.4.5 String literals« does say that »The multibyte
>   character sequence is then used to initialize an array of
>   static storage duration and length just sufficient to
>   contain the sequence«, but it does not name the type as
>   »char[n]«. While you are probably right, I cannot find
>   this type explicitly given in N1570.

Well, *something* has to explain why sizeof "abcd" is five, in any case,
right? :)

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string literals vs char* arnuld <sunrise@invalid.address> - 2014-12-27 05:37 +0000
  Re: string literals vs char* Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-12-27 06:36 +0000
  Re: string literals vs char* Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2014-12-27 00:58 -0800
    Re: string literals vs char* Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2014-12-27 22:03 +1300
    Re: string literals vs char* Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-12-27 11:55 -0800
      Re: string literals vs char* glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-28 07:55 +0000
        Re: string literals vs char* Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-12-28 11:39 +0000
          Re: string literals vs char* Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-03-24 08:55 -0700
            Re: string literals vs char* Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-24 12:17 -0700
  Re: string literals vs char* James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-27 11:36 -0500
    Re: string literals vs char* Vincenzo Mercuri <nomail@yahoo.it> - 2014-12-27 18:20 +0100
      Re: string literals vs char* Vincenzo Mercuri <nomail@yahoo.it> - 2014-12-27 18:55 +0100
    Re: string literals vs char* Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-12-27 17:25 +0000
    Re: string literals vs char* Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-12-27 12:08 -0800
    Re: string literals vs char* James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-28 07:01 -0500
  Re: string literals vs char* John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2014-12-30 10:52 -0800

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