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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: retiring gets(3)
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Date: 23 Nov 88 21:09:00 GMT
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>I suspect that I am far from the only one who would be most
>interested in learning to use gets(3) safely.
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I don't understand how you can get something like

    gets(3);

past a compiler. Isn't 'gets' supposed to take a char * argument,
not an int literal?