thus on Wed, 13 Sep 95 18:49:32 EDT, Jeremy virtually scripted...
>> > why is buf[] declared in so many places to be rather small in the
>> .c files
>> > when it is declared in structs.h and db.h to be size
>> > MAX_STRING_LENGTH?
>> > this seems a little odd to me.
>> Well, because the circle code is a mess
> Well, that's certainly a subjective thing...
>> and the compiler
>> and linker don't care.
>>
>> If you declare buf[32] it will replace (override)
>> the global buf variable by a local of size 32Bytes until
>> the function is left.
> There is an excellent reason for declaring local buf's. Consider the
> following piece of code:
> ACMD(my_command)
> {
> sprintf(buf, "Hello");
> do_some_other_processing();
> strcat(buf, "\r\n");
> send_to_char(buf, ch);
> }
> What if do_my_own_processing uses buf[], too? Chaos.
> Functions that get called from other functions often have their own local
> bufs to avoid such problems.
> -Jeremy
ok... that makes a lot of sense, any particular reason they all use the
same name? and not something like local_buf?
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