Re: Any help?

"Vladimir S. Oka" <novine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
[...]
> In the context of OP's original question, which was:
>
> cj wrote:
> > Which would be true? The size of the array would be reduced to 10 or
> > the array size stays at 80 and the string fills array locations,
> > starting at array [0].
>
> I'd still say that array elements past the first 0, are "unused",
> i.e. the array stays the size 80 _and_ the string fills its locations
> starting with array[0].

If you use the array as a string (e.g., by passing the address of its
first element to printf() or strlen()), the array elements past the
first 0 will be unused. But since the language guarantees that all
those elements will be initialized to '\0', a program can legally use
them, and can depend on their initial values. (Not any program that
I'd wrote, though.)

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