Re: Look what I caught! was re:Ada paper critic

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

Wes Groleau wrote:
> 
> > >  A C array does not contain
> > >"one element more" on either side.  The standard allows setting
> > >a pointer to the next element after the end of an array, but
> > >such a pointer can not be dereferenced.
> 
> The standard does?  But most compilers ignore this, right?

The pointer can be dereferenced, of course, but it's "undefined behavior".
In other words, the programmer shouldn't do this, because the compiler is
allowed to enforce that you don't. Of course, most C compilers implement
pointers as raw addresses, so it's generally hard to make sure you're doing
the Right Thing that way.

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