hardcoded constants

Rahul Dhesi dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP
Sat Dec 17 07:13:28 AEST 1988


In article <1988Dec15.190331.2986 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
writes:
     [But how about] about things like (in a function to concatenate
     two strings with a '/' in between):

	   foo = malloc(strlen(a)+strlen(b)+2);	/* 2 for '/' '\0' */

You are right.  This is a valid exception to my suggestion, and it had
not occurred to me.
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