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Thomas Wolf (wolf@lglsun.epfl.ch) asks:
> > In the initialization of a character array with fixed size with
> > automatic storage duration by a character string literal with
> > fewer characters (including the terminating null character) than
> > the array has elements, are the remaining array elements initialized
> > as if the array had static storage duration?
 
Larry Jones (scjones@thor.sdrc.com) answers:
> Yes.  The wording in the standard has been (or will be) corrected by
> a Technical Corrigendum to make this clear.

It's "will be"; this fix is part of TC2, which is currently up for balloting.

The proposed wording of the correction to 6.5.7 (which was 3.5.7 in ANSI
Classic) makes the applicable paragraph read as follows.  (Emphasis added.)
 
#  If there are fewer initializers in a brace-enclosed list than there
#  are members of an aggregate, OR FEWER CHARACTERS IN A STRING LITERAL
#  OR WIDE STRING LITERAL USED TO INITIALIZE AN ARRAY OF KNOWN SIZE, AND
#  ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER OR wchar_t TYPE, the remainder of the aggregate
#  shall be initialized implicitly the same as objects that have static
#  storage duration.
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