On 11/9/2010 7:13 PM, Seebs wrote:
On 2010-11-09, Terry Reedy<tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
I've been wondering why C programmers keep writing code susceptible to
buffer overruns ;=).
Because we're dumb!
(Actually, in my defense, my code almost never, if ever, has buffer
overruns. I do in some rare cases have truncation issues with sufficiently
ridiculous input data.)
I was referring to Schildt using gets() all the time and thereby
teaching new C generations to do he same.
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