Practice Problem 2.26 (solution page 151)
You are given the assignment of writing a function that determines whether one string is longer than another. You decide to make use of the string library function strlen having the following declaration:
/* Prototype for library function strlen */
size_t strlen(const char *s);
Here is your first attempt at the function:
/* Determine whether string s is longer than string t */
/* WARNING: This function is buggy */
int strlonger(char *s, char *t) {
return strlen (s) - strlen (t) > 0;
}
When you test this on some sample data, things do not seem to work quite right. You investigate further and determine that, when compiled as a 32-bit
program, data type size is defined (via typed) in header file stdio . h to ̑ be unsigned.
- A. For what cases will this function produce an incorrect result?
- B. Explain how this incorrect result comes about.
- C. Show how to fix the code so that it will work reliably.
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