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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hardcoded constants
Message-ID: <5212@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 88 21:13:28 GMT
References: <1988Dec8.173158.11839@utzoo.uucp> <846@starfish.Convergent.COM> <9134@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1988Dec13.172306.16195@utzoo.uucp> <5146@bsu-cs.UUCP> <1988Dec15.190331.2986@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <1988Dec15.190331.2986@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
writes:
     [But how about] about things like (in a function to concatenate
     two strings with a '/' in between):

	   foo = malloc(strlen(a)+strlen(b)+2);	/* 2 for '/' '\0' */

You are right.  This is a valid exception to my suggestion, and it had
not occurred to me.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi