compare strings, strcmp

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <11623 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
| In article <1632 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
| >  I can only speculate, but strcmp can give memory faults if the string
| >is not properly terminated.
| 
| It also could fail if fed a banana cream pie.
| 
| Why speculate when you don't know?

  Good grief! I tried to be helpful and offered one case in which the
macro could be "unsafe," and you have to make a nasty comment. I didn't
even comment on how uninformative the comment really was, or anything.

  Improperly terminated strings are fairly common, while pies are a
feature of C--.
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