top, fixed buffer length in utils.c

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 01:36:45 UTC 2015


On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Erich Dollansky <
erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:

> It is a very bad idea to assume a size for any type when the size can
> change between compilers.
>
> If you want, just read the old discussion regarding time_t.
>

I keep feeling like we should have learned *something* in the past 30+
years, instead of rehashing arguments used in the PDP11, and later the
8088, days.

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