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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d3f28f2a74233d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-30 15:22:23 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Ted Dennison Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie Questions about Get, Get_Line Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 23:12:35 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <92lq4v$1hv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <3A4DED82.C23CDB77@acm.org> <92l5bf$i0p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A4E65CD.4A828FB1@acm.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.48.27.130 X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Dec 30 23:12:35 2000 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001207 X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x70.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtedennison Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3479 Date: 2000-12-30T23:12:35+00:00 List-Id: In article <3A4E65CD.4A828FB1@acm.org>, Marin David Condic wrote: > because of the reference to Skip_Line? As for my use of it - I always > use a string way bigger than what I'd think could be reasonably be > used in most cases. Then of course there are recursive techniques that > can guarantee you don't overflow the buffer. Same here. I wouldn't have know any better myself, if I hadn't just looked it up. -- T.E.D. http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/