Re: [PATCH] Btrfs-progs use safe string manipulation functions

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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Eduardo Silva <eduardo.silva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 14:52 +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Eduardo Silva <eduardo.silva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > string_copy seems pointless, it's kinda equivalent to strcpy.
>> >
>> > Yeah, but if we are thinking into write some wrappers let's create a couple
>> > for the major string manipulation used...
>>
>> A wrapper should have a benefit, your string_copy doesn't have any.
>
> It have it, take this example:
>
> Â Â Â Âchar *a;
> Â Â Â Âa = malloc(1024);
> Â Â Â Âstrcpy(a, NULL);
>
> at least with the wrapper you will get a notice about what's going
> on...

The debugger shows you what's going on without wrapper.

-- 
Olaf
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