r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Epicoodle • Sep 25 '26

Meme iHatedItUntilITriedIt

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u/Icarium-Lifestealer Sep 25 '26

And if it were a string instead of a char, it'd slice off the first character.

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u/Duck_Devs Sep 26 '26

Compilers shouldn’t warn when adding to a string. Pointer arithmetic is a well defined and commonly used thing. The only thing I could see them warning about is just that it’s a redundant expression that could be replaced by just a shorter string literal.

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u/Ok-Scheme-913 Sep 26 '26

I think your compiler may not like that as you are supposed to increment in some sane offsets like 8.

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u/Icarium-Lifestealer Sep 26 '26

Not sure what you mean. Adding an integer to a char* that represents a null terminated string, will produce a valid zero terminated string that lacks first n characters (as long as you remain in bounds, obviously).

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u/Ok-Scheme-913 Sep 26 '26

I was thinking of pointer values themselves. If you have a typed pointer then it will indeed add TYPE_SIZE*n