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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <me1bgo$urp$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 
> 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.)

   As in all things, Microsoft has there own.  :-(

   But there was an attempt in the 1980s by one vendor to interpret
   "pointer" as sometihing more than an address and provide a C compiler
   that would generate safer code.

   Guess what didn't sell.