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| Subject | Re: calling argumentless function with argument |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| References | (8 earlier) <m2r2dqljbb.fsf@despina.home> <nBdYD.43265$Fi6.26172@fx12.am4> <87r2dqsdl4.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <4TlYD.88848$Sj4.69467@fx15.am4> <m2zhsej8vb.fsf@despina.home> |
| From | Bart <bc@freeuk.com> |
| Message-ID | <GrmYD.47945$dp2.5980@fx18.am4> (permalink) |
| Organization | virginmedia.com |
| Date | 2019-01-06 12:24 +0000 |
On 06/01/2019 11:58, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>
>> On 06/01/2019 02:51, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>
>>>> printf("%.*s",strlen(arg),arg);
>>>
>>> This needs a cast (not "needs" in your sense of the word, just in C's
>>> sense) because strlen returns size_t.
>>
>> OK.
>>
>>> But what's it for anyway? Why
>>> not just
>>>
>>> fputs(arg, stdout);
>>>
>>> ?
>>
>> I wasn't completely sure 'arg' was zero-terminated, otherwise why
>> would the original need the length? But I see now it has to be
>> otherwise strlen wouldn't work. (It was rather late and I just wanted
>> to run it on Windows.)
>
>
> That's just your vanilla C programmers. They're traumatised by buffer
> overflow so they keep trying to pass explicit lengths everywhere, and of
> course, they introduce more problems doing so than relying on
> zero-terminated strings.
>
> They're basically incapable of introducing and using any abstraction.
>
>
> printf("%.*s",strlen(arg),arg);
>
> is one of the dumbest forms you can find. It should be written:
>
> printf("%s",arg);
So why did you use:
write(0,arg,strlen(arg));
in your code; what's the strlen(arg) for?
Anyway I use the "%.*s" format frequently, eg. when calling f/printf as
a foreign function from languages that use counted, non-zero-terminated
strings.
Normally this is from some terminal function, where the only choice of
doing any console or file output is to use standard C functions (that
work on any OS), or to use OS-specific ones.
--
bart
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calling argumentless function with argument jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2019-01-04 16:04 +0000
Re: calling argumentless function with argument David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-01-04 17:34 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-04 17:30 +0000
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-04 09:50 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-05 05:58 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-05 07:56 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-05 10:56 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-05 14:55 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 01:29 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-06 02:20 +0000
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-01-06 02:51 +0000
Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 12:12 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-06 11:53 +0000
Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 12:58 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-06 11:45 +0000
Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 12:58 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-06 12:24 +0000
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-01-06 04:34 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 13:41 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 04:10 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 13:51 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 13:56 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 05:20 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 16:08 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-01-06 15:59 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-06 13:42 +0000
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 06:22 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 16:19 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 07:42 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 08:05 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 08:30 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 17:44 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 08:54 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 08:02 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 08:07 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 09:16 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 09:40 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 09:57 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-09 02:23 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 16:17 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-06 16:56 +0000
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 09:12 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 12:39 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 18:26 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-06 18:52 +0000
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 02:32 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-01-06 04:38 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 13:42 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-01-06 10:27 -0600
Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 17:47 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-01-04 19:30 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-01-04 10:55 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-01-05 00:16 -0600
Re: calling argumentless function with argument queequeg@trust.no1 (Queequeg) - 2019-01-07 10:43 +0000
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-01-07 16:25 -0600
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2019-01-04 09:54 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-01-04 10:26 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-01-04 12:07 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-01-04 15:03 -0500
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-01-05 00:04 +0000
Re: calling argumentless function with argument James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-01-05 22:36 -0500
Re: calling argumentless function with argument jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2019-01-05 13:17 +0000
Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-05 06:06 -0800
Re: calling argumentless function with argument David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-01-05 15:42 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-01-05 14:58 +0000
Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-05 16:11 +0100
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-01-05 11:23 -0500
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-01-05 16:53 +0000
Re: calling argumentless function with argument Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-01-06 00:46 +0000
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