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On 02/03/2011 01:24 AM, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>
> *Every* time I look at C code, I see a bug.
> I think this is a bug; it should read "message++" since you want to
> increment the pointer, not the pointed-to character.

As others have explained, this is not an error, though the unused dereference is 
wasted effort. However, if message does not contain zero, this will happily read 
memory outside of message, and if the first zero encountered follows enough 
bytes, it will happily write memory outside of vidmem.

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