Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 23:45:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: runtime warnings Message-ID: <199509232145.XAA26046@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9509232113.AA07376@borg.ess.harris.com> from "James Leppek" at Sep 23, 95 05:13:43 pm
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As James Leppek wrote: > > having runtime warnings for things like gets. Compile time warnings > I can understand, but runtime??? I give someone the latest gnuchess > and everytime they start it, up pops this warning about gets being > unsafe. To most folks that means "don't run this program, it's broken". It has been discussed before. The only way to convince people replacing dangerous functions (like gets()) is to annoy them. If you don't have the source, bug the author... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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