Array bounds checking with C????

[Al Dunbar]

In article <1990Sep6.203031.29254 at laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu>, jimmy at tybalt.caltech.edu (Jimmy Hu) writes:
>In article <1589 at redsox.bsw.com> campbell at redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) writes:
>>Are there actually any current compilers out there that are so stupid that
>>they generate substantially different code for the following two code fragments?
>>
>>    /* Fragment 1 */
>>    for (p = array; p < &array[ARRAY_SIZE]; p++)
>>       *p++ = '\0';
>>
>>    /* Fragment 2 */
>>    for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE; i++)
>>       array[i] = '\0';
>>
 
Actually, the first fragment will set every other element of
the array to '?0', as the pointer is incremented twice per trip
through the loop.
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