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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Method other than strlen to check for truncation with fgets? |
| Date | 2015-05-07 08:51 -0700 |
| Organization | None to speak of |
| Message-ID | <87oalwjsh4.fsf@kst-u.example.com> (permalink) |
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Lőrinczy Zsigmond <zsiga@nospam.for.me> writes:
>> 1) The fgets function works on text streams, which are not supposed to
>> contain null characters;
>
> Still, they *might* contain binary zeroes;
> gcc for example handles this situation:
>
> nulla.c:5:4: warning: null character(s) ignored
[...]
To be clear, that's gcc compile-time behavior when processing a source
file containing null characters. Handling of C source files needn't be
consistent with run-time handling of text streams; compilers don't even
have to be implemented in C.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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"
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