char (or wchar_t) is initialized with a string literal that contains fewer characters than the array, are the remaining elements of the array initialized?This issue has been automatically converted from the original issue lists and some formatting may not have been preserved.
Authors: Larry Jones, Project Editor (P.J. Plauger)
Date: 1993-07-19
Submitted against: C90
Status: Fixed
Fixed in: C90 TC2
Cross-references: 0092
Converted from: dr.htm, dr_060.html
When an array of char (or wchar_t) is initialized with a string literal that
contains fewer characters than the array, are the remaining elements of the
array initialized?
Subclause 6.5.7 Initialization, page 72, only says (emphasis mine):
If there are fewer initializers in a brace-enclosed list than there are members of an aggregate, the remainder of the aggregate shall be initialized implicitly the same as objects that have static storage duration.
Comment from WG14 on 1997-09-23:
In subclause 6.5.7, page 72, the penultimate paragraph of Semantics (before Examples), add after the comma:
or fewer characters in a string literal or wide string literal used to
initialize an array of known size, and elements of character or wchar_t type