Objective

Use secure coding techniques in C or C++ to avoid:

  • buffer overflows
  • integer overflows

Description

Write a short program in C++ (or C) to manage orders in a restaurant.

  • The restaurant starts the day with 100 meals prepared. (They will not make additional meals for that day.)
  • As long as there are meals still available, they will take an order for a customer.
  • For each customer:
    • Take the number of meals ordered.
    • If the number of meals ordered exceeds the number of meals still available, decline the order.
    • Otherwise, accept the order and reduce the number of meals remaining.
    • If the order is accepted, take the customer name as well as any special requests.
  • After all meals are sold, print a recap that shows each customer name and the number of meals they ordered.

Limitations

Do not use:

  • C++ standard library string class or
  • C++ standard library data structure classes
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