On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:52:40PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> And my first instinct...
> strcat(msg=strdup(strvar1),strvar2);
> doesn't work because you can never be sure what order the
> arguments will evaluate. So strcat might cat strvar2 on the
> (uninitialised) msg before strdup over-writes it with strvar1.
actually the order of evaluation isn't the problem. you haven't allocated
enough space for strvar2.
kevin
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