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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Real data for a change in the assignment operators and
 Bounded_String discussions.
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 09:27:11 +0000 (UTC)
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
: 
:> (I can imagine trying to write that code in C, with  mallocs, frees,
: > searches for nul (strlen) and copies all over the place. Ouch!)
: 
: Well, let's see (error checking left out):

Indeed ;-)

The program has a leak.  Adding

int main()
{
  /* make sure this file exists, otherwise you might get
     a segmentation fault */

  char* TEST_FILE = "test.file";
  char* _1st_line = 0;

  while (1)
    _1st_line = first_line_of_file(TEST_FILE);
  fputs(_1st_line, stdout);
}

and a few "(char*)realloc(...)" to first_line_of_file().

georg@strudel:/tmp$   gcc -o whole whole.c
georg@strudel:/tmp$   ls -l test.file
-rw-r--r--    1 georg    staff           0 Jul  7 10:24 test.file
georg@strudel:/tmp$   ./whole