Re: [Dev-C++] integer to string

[Luigi S. <gi...@li...>]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:37:28AM +0200, Per Westermark wrote:
> Your implementation of itoa would leak memory - normally itoa would use a
> static buffer that is overwritten at each call.

I agree that mine is just a try, also I wish to learn from your
comment. My code has a memory leak because of:
 - user will almost always forget to call "free"  (shortly: bad designed code)
 - there is a bug in the code  (shortly: bugged code) 
 - both bad design and bad code

By the way, a call to "strcpy" does copy the piece of an array up-to
the '\0', does the function "free" return memory up-to the '\0' or does
it free the whole array (as I assume) ?
> 
> A better itoa would build the buffer from the end, i.e. *p-- = ch
> thereby removing need for reversing the string.

I'll try to follow this advice too.
 
> /Per W

Thanks Per 
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