Dear developers: I find it counterintuitive that if I repeatedly reset a variable by using strcpy with an empty string "" to that variable and then us strcat to add characters to that variable that that seems to lead to a stack overflow.
I would expect strcpy to first free the variable, then malloc, then copy the string value into the variable. I think that would be a better interpretation, because it can keep running for quite some time before it overflows and doesn’t really call it. Instead, I got "Illegal instruction: 4". I ended up reimplementing the reset function, implementing it with free and malloc myself, but the way strings have been implemented in C is highly counter-intuitive. In general pointers tend to be bug-prone, but here you would expect this not to happen. I hope you can fix this. Personally, I’m looking into switching to Ada. All the best, Emile M. Hobo - Au fin! Et encore en plus. -
