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- From: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zefram)
- Subject: Re: brief summary of Technical Corrigendum 2
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- Message-ID: <1996Jan21.220541.28634@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
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- Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 22:05:41 GMT
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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.
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- Do you mean cases like "abc\0xyz" and "abc", which could compare as equal?
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- -zefram
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