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From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Strcpy fun w/ Ultrix
Message-ID: <10401@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 May 89 00:33:17 GMT
References: <cYLAeIy00Vsn02rps8@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In article <cYLAeIy00Vsn02rps8@andrew.cmu.edu> bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein) writes:
|> Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.lang.c: 27-Apr-89 Strcpy fun w/ Ultrix tim@scsmo1.UUCP (618)

|> strcpy(x->name=malloc(strlen(in)+1),in);

|Bad programming style alert!

|Do you WANT to dump core if malloc returns NULL?

Sometimes this leads to a better chance of recovery than some of the
other ways I've seen programs handle this situation (such as not being
able to do anything at all, for instance).  All things considered, I
would rather have a graceful recovery.

Oh, well.  
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