From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f868292008c639ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings Date: 2000/05/04 Message-ID: <3911A2DE.6A4279FB@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 619196278 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <390F0D93.F835FAD9@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <8en5o9$ihe$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8eonos$e70$1@wanadoo.fr> X-Accept-Language: en,es,fr,pt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 957457123 151.168.144.162 (Thu, 04 May 2000 12:18:43 EDT) Organization: Raytheon Company MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 12:18:43 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > This isn't to say that C's string handling isn't flawed. Once of > the biggest problems is that, though a function can return a pointer > to a (variable-length) string, there's no standard way to manage the > associated memory. Another is that it's easy to feed an array of char with no null terminator to a string function. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau