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| From | "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: calling argumentless function with argument |
| Date | 2019-01-06 12:58 +0100 |
| Organization | Informatimago |
| Message-ID | <m2zhsej8vb.fsf@despina.home> (permalink) |
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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);
>>> arg = va_arg(strings, const char*);}
>>> va_end(strings);}
>>>
>>> int main(void){
>>> char* i="Hello";
>>> print("ala (",i,")","\n",NULL);
>>> return 0;}
>>
>> Mind you, both replies seem to be missing the point since the context
>> makes it clear that in fir's post i is not a char * (nor a char[]).
>
> The original examples weren't very good as they were either too
> simple, or underspecified so that they could be expressed as C code.
--
__Pascal J. Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com
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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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