Is ``char c; strcpy(&c,"");'' ANSI C?

[Mark Brader]

> While K&R II is a good way to learn ANSI C, it cannot take the place of
> the actual standard.
> Section 3.3.6, page 48, lines 9-11:
> 	For the purposes of these operators [binary + and -], a pointer
> 	to a nonarray object behaves the same as a pointer to the first
> 	element of an array of length one with the type of the object
> 	as its element type.

Actually, this is one of the few places where it shows up that K&R II
is based on the January 1988 draft of the standard.  That sentence was
added to Section 3.3.6 later than that, as an editorial change (proposed
by me, by the way).

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