Using strcat in C

Question

Okay so I have the following Code which appends a string to another in C#, note that this is Just an example, so giving alternative string concatination met

Answer 1

The safe way to do this in classic C style is:

 char *strconcat(char *s1, char *s2)
 {
    size_t old_size;
    char *t;

    old_size = strlen(s1);

    /* cannot use realloc() on initial const char* */
    t = malloc(old_size + strlen(s2) + 1);
    strcpy(t, s1);
    strcpy(t + old_size, s2);
    return t;
  }

  ...

  char *message = "\n\nHTTP/1.1 ";
  message = strconcat (message, Status_code);
  message = strconcat (message, "\nContent-Type: ");

Now you can say a lot of bad things about it: it's inefficient, it fragments your memory, it's ugly ... but it's more or less what any language with a string concatenation operator and C type (zero-terminated) strings will do (except that most of these languages will have garbage collection built-in).