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nitrogen on Feb 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

Look at the man page for alloca(). Stack-allocated strings are more dangerous in the face of overflow than heap-allocated strings.

jhallenworld on Feb 6, 2014 [–]

Well I did not mean that the strings are literally on the call stack. You can make your own stack (and it doesn't have to be a stack, just have the same semantics).

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