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The programmer doesn't have to keep both in sync manually, so there is less chance that they blow up, as it happens regularly in C code, even after being reviewed.



I don’t recall that syntax being valid C. I thought the length modifier had to be a literal.


It doesn't matter, because it gets ignored anyway.




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