Re: Commercial C To Ada 95 compiler

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Unless my intent was to figure out the address of the thing located just
after X - probably Y in this case. :-) The thing is that it isn't really an
error until you are trying to de-reference the thing pointed to by Y. Before
that its just incrementing a counter - which might be done for all sorts of
reasons none of which may have anything to do with the array X.

Its not "normal" programming, so I'd agree that it would be really nice to
know when someone is making this kind of error. Its just that this
particular case might come under the heading of "No Harm - No Foul" - It may
be an error in the code, but one that has no impact on the correct operation
of the program.

MDC
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"Darren New" <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3D053737.476B8185@san.rr.com...
>
> Well, in theory
>
> { char x[3]; char * y = x;
>   y++; y++; y++; y++; y++;
> }
>
> is illegal. You're indexing off the end of the x array.
>
> Of course, very few compilers enforce this.
>