Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: compare strings, strcmp
Keywords: strcmp,strings
Message-ID: <11623@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Nov 89 15:39:23 GMT
References: <4463@blake.acs.washington.edu> <11605@smoke.BRL.MIL> <308@charyb.COM> <1632@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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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?