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		saagarjha on June 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Massacring C Pointers > Inconsistent Variable declaration How so? > I would have used strcpy 2 times You can't do this, because strcpy doesn't give you the length of the string you copied, which is necessary to put the trailing null byte.

scatters on June 26, 2018 [–]

strcpy writes a trailing zero.

> The strcpy() function copies the string pointed to by src, including the terminating null byte ('\0'), to the buffer pointed to by dest.

saagarjha on June 27, 2018 | [–]

Yup, I'm aware of that, but the author of that code sure isn't ;)

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