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From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: retiring gets(3)
Message-ID: <4294@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 24 Nov 88 20:39:48 GMT
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Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
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In article <225800095@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
+>I suspect that I am far from the only one who would be most
+>interested in learning to use gets(3) safely.
+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?

You win the Gracie Allen Award of C!

Reminds me of something that happened in code walkthrough. One of the reviewers
noticed that all the exit statements were:
	exit(2);
and asked the programmer why an exit value of two was used regardless of
the exit conditions. The programmer replied, "That's what it says on
the top of the man page."


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