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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] in drivers/char/joystick/magellan.c
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On Tue, 28 January 2003 22:03:53 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:47:35AM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > 
> > An array of character type may be initialized by a character string
> > literal, optionally enclosed in braces. Successive characters of the
> > character string literal (including the terminating null character if
> > there is room or if the array is of unknown size) initialize the
> > elements of the array.
> 
> Which means it was OK.

Agreed. objdump -s gives the following:

 0040 30414233 44353647 48393a4b 3c4d4e3f  0AB3D56GH9:K<MN?
 0050 ffffffff 00000000 60010000 e0010000  ........`.......

So gcc does follow the spec here. (redhat gcc 2.96)

Thank you for the clarification, Martin and Randy.

J?rn

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-- Scott Culp, Manager of the Microsoft Security Response Center, 2001
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