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Subject: Re: Possible bug in code.

Author: Tim Foden

Date: 08:12:43 08/14/03

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On August 14, 2003 at 07:47:49, Joost Buijs wrote:

>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

Yes, only AFTER I had posted it did I realise that I had miscounted by 2 chars.
Doh! :)  But still too small really as you know.

Cheers, Tim.




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