Re: Pointer as a function parameter
Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com>, on
16/09/2010 22:10:46, wrote:
* Ian Collins, on 16.09.2010 21:59:
On 09/17/10 07:57 AM, Ian Collins wrote:
On 09/17/10 01:46 AM, Helge Kruse wrote:
"Ian Collins"<ian-news@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8fcv01F1v0U6@mid.individual.net...
On 09/16/10 10:09 AM, errfet wrote:
int str_to_char (char * dst, const string&str){
dst = new char [str.size()+1];
strcpy(dst, str.c_str());
return (str.size()+1);
}
White space is free these days...
There is a lot of whitespace in the message. Unfortunately Outlook
Express
does not display this correctly and removes it when you reply.
What's new
for me was that even your Thunderbird has this problem...
That was a recent "enhancement"! The solution (for both?) is to avoid
tabs.
I posted too soon, spaces in the original are preserved by
Thunderbird, it was
this single function that didn't have any in the OP.
TB 3.x removes spaces when replying to a "format: flowed" message.
It's moronic.
But then so is much software today; I think it reflects that people
aren't in general promoted for their technical skills, so that in many
cases people who can imagine that such functionality is good, are those
who set the rules.
Well, at least for this very case, it appears to be a known bug... some
weeks ago I've struggled a bit to find a mention of it in the TB
BugZilla and right now I have no handy reference... in any case, you
know, crap happens, that's not necessarily sign of incompetence or
deliberate sabotage ;-)
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