Make Money Fast (was: Re: linux libio status)

[Branko Cibej]

Peter Seebach wrote:

> However, correctness aside, it is good to use NULL for null pointers,
> for the same reason it is good to use "hello, world" rather than
> { 'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ',', ' ', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd' }
> to initialize arrays of characters.
>
> (One point extra credit for spotting the difference, two points
> extra credit for spotting the case where the two are not different.)

Here you are, then:

    /* sizeof(diff1) == sizeof(diff2) + sizeof('\0') */

    char diff1[] = "hello, world";
    char diff2[] = { 'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ',',
                     ' ', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd' };

    /* sizeof(same1) == sizeof(same2) == sizeof(diff2) */

    char same1[12] = "hello, world";
    char same2[12] = { 'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ',',
                       ' ', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd' };


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