That's a non-problem

That's a non-problem

Posted May 21, 2009 0:11 UTC (Thu) by dododge (subscriber, #2870)
In reply to: That's a non-problem by dlang
Parent article: EGLIBC: Not a fork, but a glibc distribution

ISO/IEC TR 24731-1 adds bounds-checking functions to the Standard C library, but it's still just a draft. The proposed functions use a "_s" suffix with existing function names. The group explicitly rejected the strlcpy name because they want to provide a large consistent suite of these functions in one shot -- not just basic string operations but also things like tmpfile_s, vfprintf_s, asctime_s, wmemcpy_s, and many others. According to the associated Rationale, strcpy_s also performs more checks and has more elaborate error handling than strlcpy.

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