Hi, On Thu, 23 Aug 2018, Richard Biener wrote:
> > > Can you write a not \0 terminated string literal in C? > > > > Yes: char a[2] = "12"; > > I thought they are fully defined in translation phase #1 ... No, you can't write a string literal which is not zero terminated, because in translation phase 7 a zero code is appended to all character sequences resulting from string literals, which is then used to allocate and initialize a static (wide) character array of just the right size, including the zero code. The above construct uses that static char[3] array from the string literal to initialize a char[2] array (which is explicitely allowed), and _that_ one is not zero terminated. But it's also no string literal. (Of course, due to as-if the intermediate char[3] array won't usually be explicitely constructed.) Ciao, Michael.
