From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Using cgets (a !FAQ)
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 10:44:19 +0200
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Joel Hunsberger wrote:

> Now, the interesting part is that the implicit conversion "taking place" is
> only
> reported when the compiler switch -pedantic is ON.  Without it, compilation
> was silent and apparently succesful.  However, when cgets receives a -1 as
> the
> buffer length, the stack gets corrupted... Data back from cgets is (in
> fact)
> okay (although the stack is corrupted) so the next return goes off in the
> weeds.

Welcome to C programming ;-).  The C language is traditionally permissive to
what could be dangerous practice on the part of the programmer, so it assumes
the programmer generally knows what he/she is doing.  Using -pedantic prints
lots of warnings about perfectly valid C code, that's why it is OFF by
default.

> "> Do you mean to say that it was not known to you... "
> 
> Are you really that surprised?

No, I was just trying to understand what is it that you'd like the docs to
say more explicitly.