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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: compare strings, strcmp
Keywords: strcmp,strings
Message-ID: <1638@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 17 Nov 89 18:55:30 GMT
References: <4463@blake.acs.washington.edu> <11605@smoke.BRL.MIL> <308@charyb.COM> <1632@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11623@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <11623@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
| In article <1632@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
| >  I can only speculate, but strcmp can give memory faults if the string
| >is not properly terminated.
| 
| It also could fail if fed a banana cream pie.
| 
| Why speculate when you don't know?

  Good grief! I tried to be helpful and offered one case in which the
macro could be "unsafe," and you have to make a nasty comment. I didn't
even comment on how uninformative the comment really was, or anything.

  Improperly terminated strings are fairly common, while pies are a
feature of C--.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon