disturbed between two versions

[Keith Thompson]

Ok, I'll bite. For a weak definition of copy, which doen't necessarily
include the result being identical to the original.

Fair enough.

Bear in mind that it does not necessarily create a copy of the value,
since the value is type-converted en route if required. (6.5.16.1 p2).

(I admit I left the word "strings" out after the word "copy", but then
strings don't exist in C so it seemed reasonable not to leave it
in...)

Here you lost me. What do you mean by "strings don't exist in C"?
There is no string type, but a string is defined in C99 7.1.1p1 as "a
contiguous sequence of characters terminated by and including the
first null character." Strings certainly do exist in C.

 

[Mark McIntyre]

Here you lost me. What do you mean by "strings don't exist in C"?

I meant that there's no string type, unlike in certain other
languages.
--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan