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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2015-12-10 08:17:18 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2015-12-10 08:29:30 -0800 |
| commit | 0a13c9e9defc771d8b101672f018b1b2de6b9e0e (patch) | |
| tree | 5c55ceb3c7b77d29a52486bf71f0c9769a4ccde3 /manual/stdio.texi | |
| parent | d4e301c5c65393837e438b6d81feabfbfde7b9c7 (diff) | |
Split large string section; add truncation advice
* manual/examples/strncat.c: Remove.
This example was misleading, as the code would have undefined
behavior if "hello" was longer than SIZE. Anyway, the manual
shouldn't encourage strncpy+strncat for this sort of thing.
* manual/string.texi (Copying Strings and Arrays): Split into
three sections Copying Strings and Arrays, Concatenating Strings,
and Truncating Strings, as this section was way too long. All
cross-referenced changed. Add advice about string-truncation
functions. Remove misleading strncat example.
Diffstat (limited to 'manual/stdio.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/stdio.texi | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/manual/stdio.texi b/manual/stdio.texi index c0753b19cd..0326f29eae 100644 --- a/manual/stdio.texi +++ b/manual/stdio.texi @@ -2428,7 +2428,7 @@ the array @var{s}, not including the terminating null character. The behavior of this function is undefined if copying takes place between objects that overlap---for example, if @var{s} is also given as an argument to be printed under control of the @samp{%s} conversion. -@xref{Copying and Concatenation}. +@xref{Copying Strings and Arrays}. @strong{Warning:} The @code{sprintf} function can be @strong{dangerous} because it can potentially output more characters than can fit in the |