[OCLUG-devel] arrays

[James Colannino]

Hey everyone.  I have another C question, this time regarding arrays. 
I'm wondering what would happen if you did the following:

char array[5];

for (i = 0; i <= 10; ++i)
    array[i] = 'a';

array[11] = '\0';

/* notice that I've indexed through 7 more than I should have */

printf ("%s\n", array);

I know this is NEVER something you should do, but so far, out of
curiosity (and buggy code :-P), I've gotten away with it every time I've
tried, and I'm curious what the possible ill effects are.  Thanks in
advance.

James
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