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  1. Newsgroups: comp.std.c
  2. Path: news.dcs.warwick.ac.uk!not-for-mail
  3. From: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zefram)
  4. Subject: Re: brief summary of Technical Corrigendum 2
  5. X-Nntp-Posting-Host: stone
  6. Message-ID: <1996Jan24.182115.26078@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
  7. Sender: news@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Network News)
  8. Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
  9. References: <4d554m$q4b@news1.halcyon.com> <4dnq5b$t9a@der.twinsun.com> <1996Jan21.220541.28634@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <KANZE.96Jan22153648@slsvewt.lts.sel.alcatel.de>
  10. Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 18:21:15 GMT
  11.  
  12. James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763 <kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de> wrote:
  13. >In article <1996Jan21.220541.28634@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
  14. >A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zefram) writes:
  15. >|> Do you mean cases like "abc\0xyz" and "abc", which could compare as equal?
  16. >
  17. >For a suitable definition of compare equal, of course.  They might be
  18. >at the same address in memory, of course.  And strcmp will state that
  19. >they are equal.
  20. >
  21. >What definition of compare equal did you have in mind?
  22.  
  23. I meant "abc\0xyz"=="abc", which the standard now seems to permit.  (Of
  24. course, "abc\0xyz"!="abc" is equally legal.)
  25.  
  26. -zefram
  27.