Re:Banned C standard library functions in Git source code
by noname120 on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:33AM
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Fair point. It seems that more and more projects use "-Werror" which causes the compilation to stop and show you exactly where the error comes from[1]. Second point is that searching for "is_a_banned_function" in the code directly points to this file.
They could rename them as “sorry X is unsafe and creates too much trouble” maybe, but in today’s internet “X considered harmful” is a common search query that everyone in the field is expected to know.