On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Fili wrote:
>Suggestion:
>
>peter hartman wrote:
>> char buf[MAX_STRING_LENGTH];
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Change to char *buf;
>
>That should add some length to the string.
No, that'll cause a crash because you haven't allocated any memory for the
'char *buf;'. You'd have to do:
char *buf = (char *)malloc(the_size_here);
But by then there is little point to do that instead of using the stack
because you may forget to free() the char *.
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