Re: gets() and getchar

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From: J. Kanze
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 14:46

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Zefram (A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk) wrote:
|>  <halasz@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:

Actually, he didn't, I did.

|> >- 	-Dgets='DONT_USE_GETS!'

|> That's a disgusting hack.  It might well make the compiler unusable if
|> an included header includes a prototype for gets(), even if it's not
|> actually called.

Agreed.  I didn't think about all of the consequences.  (I never use
gets myself, and I don't need this sort of hack to avoid it.)
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