Array bounds checking with C????

[Michael Meissner]

In article <988 at christopher-robin.cs.bham.ac.uk> cjr at cs.bham.ac.uk
(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.

So that you can do something like:

char array[ARRAY_SIZE];

void clear_array(){
	char *p;

	for (p = &array[0]; p < &array[ARRAY_SIZE]; p++)
		*p = '\0';
}
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