C之去除字符串之相邻字符

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <assert.h>

void removedup(char *str)
{
    assert(str);
     int i = 0;
     int k = 0;
     for (; str[i] ; i++)
    {
         if (str[i + 1] && str[i + 1] == str[i])
             k++;
          else
              str[i-k] = str[i];
      }
      str[i-k] = '\0';
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
   char tempstr[] = "abbcdddddccccccccccccccccccccd";
   printf("before remove dup: %s\n", tempstr);
   removedup(tempstr);
   printf("after remove dup: %s\n", tempstr);
   return 0;
}