Re: brief summary of Technical Corrigendum 2

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From: Zefram
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 22:05

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Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> wrote:
>My favorite bit of trivia along these lines is that it is possible
>for two non-identical string literals to have the same address!
>The null character is the key.

Do you mean cases like "abc\0xyz" and "abc", which could compare as equal?

-zefram

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