TITLE: does C++ - C amount to 0 

PROBLEM: peinel@faw.uni-ulm.de (Gertraud Peinel)

char str[3] = "abc";


RESPONSE: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)

is illegal. Never heard about the final '\0' ?
You need 4 characters for "abc" !!!!!!


RESPONSE: stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com, 27 Sept 95

This is crossposted to comp.lang.c, where he is dead wrong,
and to comp.lang.c++, where he is dead right. :-)

In C, you need not provide room for the implied trailing null in
the literal string. In C++ you must.


[ I always avoid the problem by using the following
  char str[] = "abc";                         -adc ]