Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Baxter
Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 08:55 pm

One question I would ask is - how can we be sure that the combined lengths
of s1 and s2 are less than the size of buf (256)?

Then I would note that the function is returning a pointer to a temporary
(stack) variable - which means the return value is going to go away the next
function call made in the program.


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"Chris Sonnack" <Chris@Sonnack.com> wrote in message
news:m5s4g19937nipakeq7e8l7gcslr599023m@4ax.com...
>
> It's a little bit like asking a supposed C programmer about this:
>
> char*  strconcat(char* s1, char* s2)
>     {
>         char  buf[256];
>
>         strcpy(buf, s1);
>         strcat(buf, s2);
>
>         return buf;
>     }
>
> If they don't have *something* meaningful to say immediately, they
> probably aren't the sort of C programmer we'd want.  :-|

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