[H-GEN] malloc() causing a segfault

[Martin Pool]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 02:29:37PM +1000, Byron Ellacott wrote:
> [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and ]
> [ Unix-related topics.  Please observe the list's charter.          ]
> 
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Martin Pool wrote:
> 
> >     strcpy(s, p);  /* C is very nice sometimes */
> 
> If, however, you check the manpage for strcpy(), you will see you
> shouldn't use it on overlapping regions.  

Huh.  That's true.  It makes me wish libc came with optional
assertions for such things.  I guess glib probably does.

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