On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 10:47:06AM +0300, Ali H. Fardan wrote:
> On 2016-09-05 10:44, David Gwynne wrote:
> > > On 5 Sep 2016, at 17:39, Ali H. Fardan <r...@firemail.cc> wrote:
> > >
> > > and why is he telling me this? I just said if the destination is a
> > > pointer to char, how would a function automagically allocate a size
> > > for it?
> >
> > its not a pointer to a char, its a pointer to a char pointer:
> >
> > as per the man page:
> >
> > int
> > asprintf(char **ret, const char *format, ...);
> >
> > dlg
> >
>
> Still doesn't mean that it can automagically allocate a correct
> buffer size.
Yes it does.
Arguing about this doesn't help anybody. Go study some C.
-Otto
