[Merkuri]

Why did you leave out the return declaration for main()? And where is fclose()? (// ignore not properly closing file handles)

Here's an obvious example in a minimalistic form:

Code:

#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int main(void) { char encrypted[5] = "$A4R"; // derived eventually from some complex series of algorithms (?) char buffer[5]; char user_intput[] = "?????haha"; printf("Original: %s\n", encrypted); strcpy(buffer, user_intput); // Fail printf("Overwritten: %s\n", encrypted); }

Probably typo, donnu the thread is old.