Array bounds checking with C????

[Chris Ridd <RiddCJ>]

In article <1990Aug31.163805.11232 at zoo.toronto.edu>
henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>In article <988 at christopher-robin.cs.bham.ac.uk>
cjr at christopher-robin.UUCP (Chris Ridd <RiddCJ>) writes:
>>  Why is this?  I never could figure out why accessing the first
>>element *past* the end of an array should be legal.
>
>*Accessing* it is not legal, but taking its address is.  This is arguably
>regrettable, but vast amounts of C code depend on it, and it is not a
>serious problem to implement.

  Thanks for the reminder!  I don't tend to use the technique much myself...

    Chris

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