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| Comment | Post #281519 |
You might mention the philosophy behind the `*_s` functions: make constraint violations fatal errors. Indeed they call a *handler* that may report the error to the user and exit the program. The problem is the default behavior if the handler ignores the problem: the destination string is set to the e... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286194 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Should I check if pointer parameters are null pointers? Whether null pointer checking should be the caller's responsibility or the callee is debatable and probably a matter of opinion, local convention, sometimes logical choices but in all cases should be documented explicitly. Consider for example `memcpy()`: it is the caller's responsibility, the beh... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286191 |
I agree with you analysis. There is a problem with one of the examples: you should use `for(size_t i = 0; i < sizeof(array) / sizeof(*array); i++)` instead of `for(size_t i=0; i<n; i++)` as it would only be a coincidence if there were `n` entries in this array. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |