Array bounds checking with C????

[Henry Spencer]

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.
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