Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: v05i053: A "safe" replacement for gets()
Message-ID: <468@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 88 17:22:12 GMT
References: <674@quintus.UUCP> <117@halcdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>|#define gets(s) fgets(s, sizeof s, stdin)
...
>	gets (s);

>Two problems: the space after gets would kill it if it's a macro,

Say WHAT?  Works fine on all the compilers I know of.  "Preprocessor"
macros don't require that you give the exact same amount of white space
in the invocation as you gave in the definition; if your compiler
requires this, get it fixed!