Re:The descent to C
by acqq on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @05:29PM
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2) "That shouldn't happen in C"
It happens every day and it will as long as there's C. Zero-terminated strings are part of the standard library and almost infinite number of other libraries. You can't pretend it doesn't exist as the most common convention.
It happens every day and it will as long as there's C. Zero-terminated strings are part of the standard library and almost infinite number of other libraries. You can't pretend it doesn't exist as the most common convention.
For 1) see waps' comment with byte absolute.
One complete program from that time which uses that feature: http://kd5col.info/swag/INTERRUP/0019.PAS.html