On 4/10/2015 12:31 PM, Scott Robison wrote: > Note: In a project I was on a couple of years ago a contract programmer > came through and replaced all the strcpy/strcat/etc usage with the > Microsoft recommended strcpy_s/strcat_s/etc in the project. Problem was > he did it wrong and the code was no more safe after it was modified than > it had been previously. But at least the warnings went away!
Reminds me of all the times I saw someone replace strcpy(a,b) with strncpy(a,b,strlen(b)) which is even worse yet recommended by our bizarre coding standards, whereas the former is forbidden. The review board refused to listen to me when I explained in writing what was wrong with this picture. -- Andy Goth | <andrew.m.goth/at/gmail/dot/com>
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