Roger Scudder wrote in a message to Tom Torfs:
TT> Because it doesn't work. The char may or may not be followed by a
TT> nul-byte. Most likely it will not.
 RS>  Yeah, I didn't think it through.  I did some test's and it worked 
 RS> so I assumed it was OK.
If you defined the char as an int and you were running on a little-endian 
machine this will probably always seem to work.
 
TT> Try this instead:
TT> strncat(stringvar, &charvar, 1);
TT> Although I still doubt this is conforming code...
 RS>  I think I'll just stick to the method I used in my reply to the 
 RS> originator of the thread.
That's best, because the above won't work for non-lvalue chars.
greetings,
Tom
tomtorfs@village.uunet.be
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