* Gerald Pfeifer:

> some folks in FreeBSD-land have worked to remove all uses of gets() 
> and in fact the gets() function itself.
>
> Generally GCC builds just fine in such an environment, except for
> libssp where libssp/gets-chk.c has the following:
>
>    char *
>    __gets_chk (char *s, size_t slen)
>    {
>      char *ret, *buf;
>
>      if (slen >= (size_t) INT_MAX)
> ==>    return gets (s);   <==
>
>      if (slen <= 8192)
>        buf = alloca (slen + 1);
>      else
>        buf = malloc (slen + 1);
>      if (buf == NULL)
> ==>    return gets (s);   <==
>
>
> Here gets() is used in two edge/error cases only.
>
>
> What do you think of abort()ing on systems where gets() is not 
> available, via a bit of autoconf magic?  Is this something you 
> may be able to help with?

If the system doesn't have gets, you will not need __gets_chk, either.

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