The Old New Thing

It is not unreasonable to expect uninitialized garbage to change at any time, you don't need to ask for an explanation

November 23, 2011 Nov 23, 2011 11/23/11

Raymond Chen

A customer admitted that they had a bug in their code: One bug in the above code is in the final parameter passed to : It's supposed to be the count in bytes, but the calculation appends only one byte for the terminating null instead of a full . In other words, it should be For concreteness, let's say the original string was five s in ...