Out of fgets() and gets() which function is safe to use and why?

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fgets() is safer than gets(), because we can specify a maximum input length. Neither one is completely safe, because the compiler can't prove that programmer won't overflow the buffer he pass to fgets ().

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C programming language is a structure oriented programming language, was developed at Bell Laboratories in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie
C language features were derived from earlier language called “B” (Basic Combined Programming Language – BCPL)
In earlier days, programs were written in assembly level language. So, it had happened to write very big programs to perform specific tasks using assembly code.
But, ‘B’ language could perform the same task in few lines of program and it was faster than assemble language code.
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So, C language was invented for implementing UNIX operating system. Most of the UNIX components were rewritten in C.
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Embedded C includes features not available in normal C like fixed-point arithmetic, named address spaces, and basic I/O hardware addressing.

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