On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Chuck Reed wrote: >Anyhow, I'm hunting for a memory overflow as some may already know, and >was wondering exactly how much a char *somthing could hold. I'm mainly As much as you allocate for it. char buffer[128] = 127 characters (128th is the NUL) char *f = malloc(16) = 15 characters (that evil NUL again) CREATE(c, char, 128); = 127 characters (guess why) -- George Greer - Me@Null.net | Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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