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I got to avoid memory management for quite some time (feddit.org)

submitted 2 days ago by cows_are_underrated@feddit.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Finally I have a valid reason to learn about memory management. It was also hella weird when encountering it.

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[–] LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Without getting too critical of your code (congrats BTW), never use strcpy instead use strlcpy.

strcpy will happily allow you to create buffer overflows (a common challenge with C) which will cause your application to crash.

You'll find more details here.

Good luck!

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I did not knew this. I always appreciate constructive criticism. I am quite new to C so theres a shit ton of stuff I have never done or dont even know about.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

And understand when you can use them...

I've seen too much code following this advice blindly that just does something like

strncpy(dst, src, strlen(src))