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Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> And the only safe way is 
> 
> 	strncpy(z.c, c, 3);
> 	z.c[3] = '\0';
> 
> with compilers < 4.2?...

You could use strlcpy() instead, which always leaves a zero terminator.

-Scott