Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:46:52 -0500 Message-ID: <4E04BF7D.F38@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:46:53 -0400 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Query abt union References: <1bpqm36f6r.fsf@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 13 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.156.231.134 X-Trace: sv3-NgbfSeLBijbe8ldz7infue/lU5A4tFFFUD3E/Ltv5isgeDj4vLFPpBpAqzl43qwZXzeuch1hCq6UP8t!x9JN8gM87WDKG5CLVqIAj+kJVmCUng1hc+sKYs595dXtViOHAYjClSK66/QA1Cy3zCFc2ZtcbyAd!C9J6Qlit2g== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1452 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:6845 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > It really is too bad there isn't a good library function to copy a > string safely -- C is not all about being able to write good programs without paying attention to what you're doing. It's not difficult to copy a string safely with strcpy. -- pete