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Subject: Re: Possible bug in code.

Author: Joost Buijs

Date: 04:47:49 08/14/03

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On August 14, 2003 at 07:03:25, Tim Foden wrote:

>On August 14, 2003 at 06:43:38, Joost Buijs wrote:
>
>>You can try something like this:
>>
>>#include <stdio.h>
>>#include <stdlib.h>
>>#include <string.h>
>>
>>int queens[9][2];
>>int rooks[10][2];
>>int bishops[10][2];
>>int knights[10][2];
>>int pawns[8][2];
>>
>>void WriteArrays(int nodes)
>>{
>>	char fname[14];
>>	FILE *fp;
>>
>>	sprintf(fname,"Movei%d.d",nodes);
>
>Possible buffer overrun here... nodes my well be > 9999  :)  Looking at other
>posts of Uri's, numbers like "213,298,603" were quoted.  Safer maybe to make
>fname at least 20 chars long.  (same problem in CompareArray() too.)
>
>Cheers, Tim.

You are right ofcause, but with the ".d" extension nodes can go to 999999.
5 chars for "Movei" 2 for ".d" and 1 for the trailing zero, so 6 chars remain.
But it is indeed saver to increase the buffer size somewhat.

Joost





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