[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Request (PR#939)

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:30:31PM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> > > 
> > > Why is it that you need to copy the string at all?  What's wrong with
> > > this?
> > > 
> > > static void wall(char *str) 
> > > { 
> > >   notify_conn_ex(&game.game_connections,-1,-1,E_MESSAGE_WALL, 
> > >                  _("Server Operator: %s"),str); 
> > > }
> > 
> > Well, I guess because we don't know that str is safe?
> 
> What do you mean, "safe"?  It's limited to the MAX_LEN_CMD.  I think you can
> assume that a function that takes a C string as an argument will get a C
> string.

$ grep -Ir MAX_LEN_CMD .
./ChangeLog:    MAX_CMD_LEN        -> MAX_LEN_CMD
$ grep -Ir MAX_CMD_LEN .
./ChangeLog:    MAX_CMD_LEN        -> MAX_LEN_CMD

        Raimar

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