I'm going to give a presentation about coding practices tomorrow.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

In one part there's a "what's wrong with this C code" exercise for the audience. In the following slide, one of the listed answers is:

gets() was written by Beelzebub himself.

Yep, that's what I wrote there. Am I weird or what? :crazy:

[kixot]

1. So, uh, what are some of the questions?

Just curious.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. A two-line snipped of code from a fictitious library

It outputs a message with fprintf() and asks for a string with gets(). The audience has to figure out what good practices were violated by that.

There are other, less obvious exercises.

[aePrime]

4. Did you also do this?

char myString[] = "Hello, World!";

printf(myString);


// Security hole! And yet, common pratice.

[Skittles]

3. are you giving it to Americans?

:(