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Re: What are the odds? (a continuation of One works ...)

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DFS <nospam@dfs.com> writes:
[...]
> char charset[62]
> ="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";
> int charsetLen = strlen(charset);
> printf("%d \n",charsetLen);
> 62

That still has undefined behavior.  It appears to "work" only because,
most likely, there just happens to be a null byte in memory immediately
after charset.

I just compiled and ran your on my system.  I got 62 with gcc and clang,
and 65 with tcc.  There is not necessarily any particular reason for
this, and it could just as easily produce different results tomorrow.

> char charset[63] =
> "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";
> int charsetLen = strlen(charset);
> printf("%d \n",charsetLen);
> 62

That's well defined, but as I mentioned elsethread your (incorrect)
strlen call is the only thing that relies on charset containing a valid
string.

If you define charset using [] you can get its size using sizeof.

>> When you tested the code, did you not notice extraneous lines of 
>> output after the line for "9"?
>
> Not seeing that.  Compiled and ran on tcc/Windows and gcc (MSYS2) and 
> there are no extraneous lines of output after the output for 9.

That's one of thep problems with undefined behavior: it can evade
testing.

[...]

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Re: What are the odds? (a continuation of One works ...) Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@delq.com> - 2019-11-06 14:23 -0800
  Re: What are the odds? (a continuation of One works ...) Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-06 22:35 +0000
    Re: What are the odds? (a continuation of One works ...) luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-11-06 17:09 -0800
    Re: What are the odds? (a continuation of One works ...) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-11-06 19:19 -0800
      Re: What are the odds? (a continuation of One works ...) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2019-11-07 16:30 +1300
        Re: What are the odds? (a continuation of One works ...) Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-07 10:59 +0000
        Re: What are the odds? (a continuation of One works ...) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-11-07 14:27 +0100
  Re: What are the odds? (a continuation of One works ...) DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-11-06 18:09 -0500
    Re: What are the odds? (a continuation of One works ...) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-11-06 19:26 -0800
      Re: What are the odds? (a continuation of One works ...) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-11-07 11:57 +0000

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