Hi Darin.

19-Apr-04 18:01:02, Darin McBride wrote to Neil Heller


 DM> Hello Neil!

 JB>>>>>> for( s=target ; *s ; s++ ) {

 BB>>>> char *s=target; while(*s++) {...};

 DM> The while statement will always increment s such that it points to
 DM> the character after the nul, which means it's pointing to space
 DM> that's either unallocated (the one byte after allocated memory is
 DM> allowed to be pointed at, but not dereferenced, unlike the byte
 DM> before allocated memory), or at least garbage

Its worse than that, the body of the loop gets a different range of s
values of s too.

 DM> It's all just crazy.  Loopy, I tell ya!

:)

 -=> Bye <=-

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