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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [COMMIT] Don't use strcpy and strcat in main.c
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 03:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c537fc$Blat.v2.4$f2cdff80@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504022025.j32KPRm6014345@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (message from Mark Kettenis on Sat, 2 Apr 2005 22:25:27 +0200 (CEST))

> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 22:25:27 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> 
> Index: ChangeLog
> from  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@gnu.org>
> 
> 	* main.c: Update copyright year.
> 	(captured_main): Avois using strcpy and strcat.
                         ^^^^^
A typo.

> -      homeinit = (char *) alloca (strlen (homedir) +
> -				  strlen (gdbinit) + 10);
> -      strcpy (homeinit, homedir);
> -      strcat (homeinit, "/");
> -      strcat (homeinit, gdbinit);
> +      char *homeinit = xstrprintf ("%s/%s", homedir, gdbinit);

Why was the original code unworthy? because it used alloca?


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2005-04-02 20:25 Mark Kettenis
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