[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev46347 - src/kits/mail
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:46:45 +0100
On 2013-11-11 at 09:40:04 [+0100], Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11.11.2013 00:27, mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Commit: c801b51ce8ca55a72e9d7ea61b047dbfd2f0aec2
>
> > BAttributedMailAttachment::SaveToDisk(BEntry *entry)
> > {
> > BString path = "/tmp/";
> > - char name[B_FILE_NAME_LENGTH + 1] = "";
> > + char name[B_FILE_NAME_LENGTH] = "";
> > _data->FileName(name);
>
> This looks still weird to me. One can initialize a char array like this?
>
> What I am wondering is... "name" is a char pointer which points to a
> char buffer allocated on the stack. And after the assignment, doesn't it
> point to the empty char array *instead*? Maybe I've been programming too
> much Java lately.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/201101/how-to-initialize-an-array-in-c
C arrays look very much like pointers, but in some cases they aren't. This
is one such case.
--
Adrien.
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