Re: [avr-gcc-list] Bizarre string problem

[Dave Hansen]

From: Richard Urwin <address@hidden>
[...]
> Yes, I agree. It was the
>    char t[1]="T"
> I was questioning, since "T" is inherently 2 bytes long.
>
> It might be standard C, or it may only be allowed on some compilers. I
> don't have a copy of K&R to check.

FWIW, it is allowed by the standard.  The relative passage is 6.7.8 
(Initiailization) p14:

  An array of character type may be initialized by a character string 
literal, optionally
  enclosed in braces. Successive characters of the character string literal 
(including the
  terminating null character if there is room or if the array is of unknown 
size) initialize the
  elements of the array.

The way I read this is

  char t[1] = "Thanks for all the fish.";

is legal and will initialize the first (and only) element of t to 'T'.

Regards,
  -=Dave

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