Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Memorry error? Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 13:37:10 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <892c6f15-df18-4132-a798-5fed68982edc@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="945944de09706c9b4e29b53c9d2efdc2"; logging-data="27638"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/7K2uEynRdtyOuXDNMbKwB" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:G502SSF2eUmoHn91MkoHo5les7Y= sha1:CRkJPj6qy3HbHBAJaa1ShxX4jGs= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:75295 Alla _ writes: > Most likely, they used free() because they have the so called > GetString ()function which plays the role of scanf and fgets, and > returns the address of the string (as scanf does, if I understood it > correctly). > I use fgets. Doesn't it allocate a memory for the string it gets from > a user? No. If fgets allocated memory for the string, you would't have to give it a pointer to an existing string. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"