warning:gets function is dangerous [duplicate]

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If you have code like this:

char s[10];
gets( s );

and you type in more than 10 characters when the program is run, you will overflow the buffer, causing undefined behaviour. The gets() function has no means of preventing you typing the characters and so should be avoided. Instead you should use fgets(), which allows you to limit the number of characters read, so that the buffer does not overflow.:

char s[10];
fgets( s, 10, stdin );

The puts() function is perfectly safe, provided the string that you are outputting is null-terminated.

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