Merge pull request #1000 from xexyl/faq-fgets-improvement

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Landon Curt Noll authored and GitHub committed 2023-10-05 11:30:32 -07:00
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@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ have mainly not been touched except one that has had the buffer size increased
(which could be done for others that are not possible to change to `fgets()` but
this has not been done).
Some entries can be made to look almost identical to the original entry. For
instance the fix to [1988/reddy](1988/reddy/README.md) required only a single
`#define` be added.
In the future we, the judges, would prefer that entries use `fgets()` to prevent
these problems.
@@ -113,6 +117,7 @@ NOTE: due to 'compatibility reasons' `fgets()` stores the newline and `gets()`
does not. We're not sure how this is compatibility but either way it can cause a
problem and it is this that has complicated some fixes.
## Q: I cannot get entry XYZZY from year 19xx to compile!
Some winners, particularly winners from long ago, no longer compile on more