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gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>In article <7913@star.cs.vu.nl> eck@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Eck) writes:
>>If an array is accessed beyond the end of *an* object, the behavior is
>>undefined. (emphasis mine)

>The
>larger context is that some of the 4.11 functions could be requested to
>operate on nonexistent objects, for example
>	int src[3], dst[10];
>	memcpy(dst, src, 10);
>Instead of posting a warning in each function's subsection, the
>injunction against attempting such abuse is posted in the blanket section.

I am not completely convinced.  The point was that the standard talks about
*an* object.  It doesn't say that the object meant is the last element of
the array.

Hans
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