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  • ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 days ago

    Great example.

    Wouldn’t getchar() be more appropriate here? Last time I used C it was 16 years ago.

    • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 days ago

      Yes, and no, sir, you missed the point. The procedure here is to allocate then give away, not reading a fixed-length returned value.

      Say you can only afford to have ten bytes in the stack. You allocate char s[10]; then give it to a library to parse something. Also telling it to abort if it’s going to be longer than ten bytes, of course.