[Info-vax] [OT] C string handling, was: Re: OT: news from the trenches (re: Solaris)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-03-13, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 15-03-13 18:48, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> Need strcpy or strcat or other unsafe calls?  
>
> What's wrong with strcpy or strcat ?
>
><ducking> :-)
>

The sad thing, JF, is that there are a good number of people out there
who will ask that question seriously.

People have made efforts to replace the standard C string handling
library with something safer; there's actually a full blown SF project
in that area. (I've never used it so I don't know how good it is but
the project is at http://bstring.sourceforge.net/ in case anyone is
interested.)

Simon.

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