[Asterisk-Dev] Re: [Asterisk-cvs] asterisk enum.c,1.22,1.23

[Kevin P. Fleming]

markster at lists.digium.com wrote:

> +	answer[len] = (u_char)"\0";

> +	c->txt[(c->txtlen)-1] = (char)"\0";

These are very broken... casting a pointer to a string containing a 
single null byte into a char (or u_char) does not result in a char with 
a zero value... it results in a char containing the lowest 8 bits of the 
address in the pointer.

I presume these casts were added because the compiler complained about 
assigning "\0" to a char variable, as it rightly should, because they 
are not compatible types. Forcing the error to go away by casting was 
not the correct fix, though.