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Date: | Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:52:04 +0200 (IST) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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To: | Jack Klein <jackklein AT spamcop DOT net> |
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Subject: | Re: is this a bug? |
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jack Klein wrote: > > scanf("%s", &string); > > The line above is incorrect, the name of a character array like string > is always converted to a pointer to its first element when passed to a > function. Just "string" is the address of string[0]. &string is a > pointer to an array of characters, not a pointer to char. This just > happens to work on most compilers "by accident". It works, and not by accident. But you are right: it's bad C.
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