On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 21:02, Emile Michel Hobo wrote:
> I hope you can fix this.
There is nothing to fix, strcpy and strcat work exactly as required by
the C standard, and that isn't going to change. In any case, it's
off-topic on this mailing list because those functions are defined in
the C st
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 10:01:47PM +0100, Emile Michel Hobo via Gcc wrote:
> Dear developers:
>
> I find it counterintuitive that if I repeatedly reset a variable by using
> strcpy with an empty string "" to that variable and then us strcat to add
> characters to that variable that that seems to
You may be thinking of string capabilities in some other language.
Selected from the Linux man pages for these glibc functions:
strcpy:
char *strcpy(char *dest, const char *src);
The strcpy() function copies the string pointed to by src,
including
the terminating null by
Dear developers:
I find it counterintuitive that if I repeatedly reset a variable by using
strcpy with an empty string "" to that variable and then us strcat to add
characters to that variable that that seems to lead to a stack overflow.
I would expect strcpy to first free the variable, then ma
