Re: gets() and getchar

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From: Fergus Henderson
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 03:52

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kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze) writes:

>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.)

Mind you, the slightly less disgusting hack -Dgets=DONT_USE_GETS seems
to avoid the bad consequences, and will still give you an error message
at link time.

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