Re: [Mingw-users] how to handle secure (_t) *_s funtions with mingw and c

[Greg C. <gch...@sb...>]

On 2009-06-12 15:55Z, Thomas Steinbach wrote:
> 
> I'm searching for libraries or something like "wrapper" code for
> the "*_s" AND the "w*_s".non ansi standard functions in string.h, stdio,

Discussed a while back in this thread:
  http://search.gmane.org/?query=localtime_s&group=gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.*

Personally, I dislike this "security" idea. As you've found,
it's not portable. And it's easy enough to pass incorrect
values in the extra arguments--see:
  http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/8208.aspx#154306
so code that uses these functions isn't necessarily safe.
Illusory safety considered harmful:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strlcpy#Reception

If you want a C-like language that's safer (and standard),
use C++, where (e.g.) string concatenation is just 's+t'.
(And use libstdc++'s "debug" mode.)