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From: Cesar Rabak <crabak AT acm DOT org>
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Subject: Re: assembly code of the "strange error" - program
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:48:55 -0300
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Paul Wilkins escreveu:
> Sterten wrote:
[snipped]

>>  >Now check this out.
>>  >
>>  >int U[99]; memset(U, 4, sizeof(U));
>>  >
>>  >memset fills the memory locations used by U with the value 4.
>>
>> I prefer:  for(i=0;i<99;i++)U[i]=4;
> 
> 
> And later on when you change the array size and forget to change the 
> code you will have nasty problems.
> 

To avoid this mistake (really common and nasty), a good practice is to 
use macros defining the sizes:

#define SIZE 99
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int U[SIZE];
.
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for(i=0; i< SIZE; i++)
	U[i]=4;

HTH

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Cesar Rabak