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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: conversion
Date: 07 Jul 2003 10:55:08 -0400
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> Alexander Kopilovitch <aek@vib.usr.pu.ru> wrote:
> : Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> : 
> :> > The varying strings of unspecified maximum size are common for
> :> > many applications outside of current, quite restricted Ada
> :> > world. And arrays of such strings are no less common.
> :>
> :>Care to list some examples?
> : 
> :  /* C/C++ example */
> : 
> :  char *Titles[] = {
> :                    "Quizionary",
> :                    "Nose To Nose",
> :                    "Myself",
> :                    "General Dissent",
> :                    "Veteran's Opinion",
> :                    "Corporate Science Weekly",
> :                    "Truth, Wealth, Health",
> :                    "Bribery Times"
> :                   };

These are _not_ "varying strings of unspecified length"!

These are all _constant_ strings, whose length is determined from the
initializer. The compiler should put them in the "constant" section,
so you can't even treat them as ordinary C null-terminated variable
strings; you can't write to them!
-- 
-- Stephe