On Wednesday 14 June 2006 14:01, Jimmy Huang wrote:
> As is turns out, Trent is right, and gcc isn't too
> smart.
This isn't gcc's fault.
Your char array isn't a valid string so expecting tools like str* and
printf %s to work is foolish.
Arguably GCC should warn you about it but it doesn't.
> I assume the correct way would be:
>
> printf ("%c%c \n",mapchar[0],mapchar[1]);
Yep.
Or
printf ("%.2s \n",mapchar);
man 3 printf is your friend :)
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