Any C devs catch a silly mistake here? Seems like it should work? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45268988/return-a-struct-with-string-from-a-multi-threaded-rpc-server …
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Wait, what? Did that change? That didn't used to be true...
Looks like it's always been that way as far as I can tell. We're just bad at C lol
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No, like, I remember specific warnings about how this doesn't work. But they were from 2002, so maybe it changed?
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Hm. But setting gcc standards mode as far back as c90 doesn't change the behavior. Okay, I'm just wrong.
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it works here because i'm using a string literal and not a pointer to a string. So info about size is calculable at compile time
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I don't think you're bad at C, just no one ever does this because they're aware of the possible mistake of calculating size of the pointer.
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