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Genmutant on July 17, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Who Says C is Simple?

Also the standard library is really small. So after a short amount of time you have used almost all of it a few times.

PySlice on July 17, 2013 [–]

However it's going to take some time to learn all the gotchas in string functions... Failing to zero-terminate strings (strncpy), potential buffer overflows (many), global internal buffer and overwriting an argument (strtok), etc etc etc etc

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