* 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.
