[2106] in Athena Bugs
Re: Saber gripe: v2.0.4 (12/20/88 selene vax unix 2669 0)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Sat Apr 22 18:26:24 1989
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 89 18:26:06 EDT
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <kzolot@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Ken Zolot's message of Mon, 3 Apr 89 11:32:14 EDT,
From: <kzolot@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 89 11:32:14 EDT
Saber null-terminates declared character strings, i.e.:
1 -> char junk[5];
2 -> junk[0]=='\0'
(int) 1
The C compiler does not null-terminate a declared string.
In C, I believe it is standard for top-level definitions (i.e., not
automatic within a function) to have zero-filled values if no
initializer is supplied. I suspect this is the reason for saber's
behavior.
-- Ken
