On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:10:37PM -0600, Ronald Fenner wrote:
> sprintf(temp, "\r\n &c%s list&n\r\n", guild_types[i]);
> strcat(buf, temp);
The method I've been using is:
len += snprintf(buf + len, sizeof(buf) - len,
"\r\n &c%s list&n\r\n", guild_types[i]);
Which will ensure that you never overflow buf so long as you always
keep len == sizeof(buf), might not even be a bad idea to assert()
that if there are general-use functions doing this that you're
afraid your developers might misuse. A friend of mine even suggested
making a struct, maybe called checked_string, that associates an int
for "len" with a fixed-size string.
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