From:	Elliott Oti <e DOT oti AT stud DOT warande DOT ruu DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Strange Behaviour ...
Date:	Tue, 28 Jan 1997 06:04:28 -0800
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Panos Platon Tsapralis wrote:
> 
> Dear friends,
> 
>         I have been spending endless hours of work, trying to figure out why
> the DJGPP compiler has this strange behaviour that I present below :
> 
> ..
> char buffer[2048]
> ..
> int main(void)
> 
> {
> ..
> strcpy(buffer,"string1"); /* Works O.K. - RHIDE debugger shows
> buffer="string1" ... */
> ..
> strcpy(buffer,"string2"); /* Old content of 'buffer' vanishes - RHIDE
> debugger shows buffer="" !!! */
> ..
> return(...);
> }

Is string2 longer than string1 ?

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