> Array[4];  // this is going to store 5 byte starting 0,1,2,3,4

No, it stroes 4 bytes!

> Array[5]; // that doesn't exist what do you expect compiler to do?

not even Array[4] !!! onl Array[3] --> 4 bytes, from index 0..3 .....

As a discussion on another thread on ugly and bad C, C does not have any
validation in compile time nor in run-time... So that is valid in C to say
Array[5], however, will point to somewhere in memory the programmer did not
want to.

Tamas


On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Andre Abelian
<aabelian@mason-electric.com>wrote:

> Hi to all,
>
> At work one of our software engineer made fallowing mistake but he
> blames on compiler but I keep telling him that that's no thing to do
> with compiler
> He disagrees.
>
> Suppose array is 5 byte long
>
> Array[4];  // this is going to store 5 byte starting 0,1,2,3,4
>
> So if I use
>
> Array[0];  // it will use first byte
>
> But if I use
>
> Array[5]; // that doesn't exist what do you expect compiler to do?
>
> If compiler is smart enough to report this kind of errors that will be
> nice
> But in reality it is typo.
>
> My question is what do you expect for compiler to do? It is a compiler
> bug or typo?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andre
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