Re:Git's list of banned C functions
by tdeck on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:43PM
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Just a surreal reminder that 30 years ago was 1991. By that time it already didn't make sense to null terminate strings (except perhaps on embedded platforms).
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Re:Git's list of banned C functions
by munchbunny on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:52AM
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To be fair, in 1991, 1mb of RAM was a substantial amount for a PC, so a single word per string instead of a byte per string could still add up quickly.