in reply to Re: Idioms considered harmful
in thread Idioms considered harmful

Ironically that book is full of lots of examples of how to not write C. Try that trick strings that might overlap and you can wipe out half your data. Even if you think that it is safe, is having to worry worthwhile?

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Re: Re: Re: Idioms considered harmful
by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Oct 16, 2002 at 13:04 UTC

    The standard library strcpy() doesn't handle the case where strings overlap either. Or at least it's behaviour is undefined.

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    John.

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