On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Vincent Torri <vto...@univ-evry.fr> wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Enlightenment SVN wrote: > >> Log: >> When using snprintf or fgets, etc, do not use PATH_MAX directly as the size >> of the variable...use sizeof() compiler directive (lots of these). > > that's something i don't understand. > > char buf[PATH_MAX] is an array of size PATH_MAX in bytes > and sizeof(buf) returns the size of buf in bytes, which is also PATH_MAX > > so what is the interest of using sizeof() instead of PATH_MAX ?
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