Michael, Not a bad idea--infact, an excellent idea; but names are defined to be no larger than, say, 16 characters as-is, so I figured 'why bother'. 'why bother' can get me into trouble, though; and changing to strncpy would cost me 5 minutes and (potentially) save me hours in the future.
Thanks for the advice. Also, thanks to everyone else as well. I muchly appreciate the assistance. Jeremy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeremy Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:29 PM Subject: Re: Question about memory, detailed > > Based on what Dale said, since memory is never allocated, I guess there's > no > > problem. I certainly don't allocate any and fread_word appears not to. > > Right. > > I would personally make that: > strncpy (bfield_data.best_ratio.name, tmp, > sizeof(bfield_data.best_ratio)); > > So you know you'll never write past the buffer. > > --Palrich. > > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
