Re: entering more characters

On 27 Jul 2005 05:15:31 -0700, "Barry" <prbharath@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
comp.lang.c:

1. Stop top posting.

> Why don't u do a bounce check? never get past an array limit

2. Don't post nonsense.

-- 'u' doesn't post here anymore, we kicked him out.

-- C doesn't have anything called a "bounce check".

-- There is no way to stop scanf "%s" without a length value from
overflowing a small buffer. On some implementations, there is no way
to prevent it from overflowing any size buffer.

> kk wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > in the following code, i enter more characters into a character array.
> > array size declared as 80. i enter more characters then i get
> > segmentation fault. if anybody knows give me reply.
> > thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards
> > kk
> >
> >
> > main()
> > {
> > char s[80];
> > scanf("%[^\n]s",s);
> > printf("%s",s);
> > }

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