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Top Forums Programming Fscanf to get number and replace. Post 302909782 by achenle on Saturday 19th of July 2014 11:49:19 AM
Old 07-19-2014
I avoid the *scanf*() functions like the plague. If they are passed unvalidated input, results are "undefined". If you're lucky your process will just SEGV and not cause any damage, if you're not you'll get corrupt data in some way.

To validate the input you have to know what it is and what standards to check it against. In other words, you have to parse and interpret the data. Because you pretty much can't safely call one of those functions without doing that.

Once you do that, there's no point in calling one of the *scanf*() functions.
 

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curl_global_init_mem(3) 					  libcurl Manual					   curl_global_init_mem(3)

NAME
curl_global_init_mem - Global libcurl initialisation with memory callbacks SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_global_init_mem(long flags, curl_malloc_callback m, curl_free_callback f, curl_realloc_callback r, curl_strdup_callback s, curl_calloc_callback c ); DESCRIPTION
This function works exactly as curl_global_init(3) with one addition: it allows the application to set callbacks to replace the otherwise used internal memory functions. This man page only adds documentation for the callbacks, see the curl_global_init(3) man page for all the rest. When you use this function, all callback arguments must be set to valid function pointers. The prototypes for the given callbacks should match these: void *malloc_callback(size_t size); To replace malloc() void free_callback(void *ptr); To replace free() void *realloc_callback(void *ptr, size_t size); To replace realloc() char *strdup_callback(const char *str); To replace strdup() void *calloc_callback(size_t nmemb, size_t size); To replace calloc() CAUTION
Manipulating these gives considerable powers to the application to severly screw things up for libcurl. Take care! SEE ALSO
curl_global_init(3), curl_global_cleanup(3), libcurl 7.12.0 10 May 2004 curl_global_init_mem(3)
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