Re:Banned C standard library functions in Git source code
by Someone on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:34AM
(#20793511)
Look at the commit comments (https://github.com/git/git/commits/master/banned.h)
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Re:Banned C standard library functions in Git source code
by chucksmash on Sunday August 25, 2019 @04:04PM
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Thanks for posting these. My company has a similar list of banned C calls so I was already familiar with the rationale. The initial patch[0] in particular is eye opening though. 157 lines of rationale and exploration of alternatives for 22 lines of uncontroversial code.
[0]: https://github.com/git/git/commit/c8af66ab8ad7cd78557f0f9f5e...