On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Jeremy Elson wrote:
>George writes:
>>If does a strlen() upon release_buffer() if you're wondering.
>
>That only tells you the size of the string most recently used - not
>the largest string that was ever put into the buffer during its
>lifetime. Maybe you could initialize the entire buffer to \0's when
>it is given to the caller, then have release_buffer find the last
>non-null character.
PARANOID_BUFFER setting initializes it to all 0's already. Many functions
do all their output and then return so the strlen was the first step.
(do_score, get_line, etc)
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