Re:C Strings and my slow descent to madness
by zabzonk on Thursday April 06, 2023 @05:28PM
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MSVC supports it, as it is an MS invention, designed by some intern, i guess. other compilers may or may not, by switches/#defines. it is worthless in any case.
Re:C Strings and my slow descent to madness
by Night_Thastus on Thursday April 06, 2023 @10:18PM
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>as it is an MS invention
Source, and why does it matter who made it?
>designed by some intern
You don't know that, nor is that how standards work.
>other compilers may or may not
So you've said basically nothing.
>it is worthless in any case.
It offers a low-overhead, safer alternative to strcpy. Is it perfect? No. But it's one of the better C options for those limited to the standard library.
Re:C Strings and my slow descent to madness
by zabzonk on Friday April 07, 2023 @05:17AM
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it was put forward to the standards comittee by MS, who have a powerful voice there. no-one else wanted it, which is why it ended up in an annex of the standard. it is badly designed, and does nothing that you can't do yourself, and should be doing yourself, in any well-written code.
The idea may not be perfect, but for C which is intended to be low overhead, strcpy_s is about as good as it gets. If you want something more user friendly, that is what C++ is for with std::string, or library implementations like Boost or QT string.