According to Frank Heckenbach:

Why is this correct? Isn't Text, being declared as an array of char, treated as a 0-terminated string, meaning that the #0 should not be printed?

No. Text being declared as an array of char is treated as a string of fixed length. The Standard doesn't say anything about 0-termination. If GPC sometimes takes `chr ( 0 )' as the end of a string, this behaviour is a remainder of the C back-end and should be reported as a BUG. (I am not, however, speaking of `CString's (= `PChar's) which are a GNU (resp. Borland) extension.)

Peter

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