On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 13:17:32 -0600, Jonathan Turkanis wrote
Jeff Garland wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 10:41:00 -0600, Jonathan Turkanis wrote
Apparently so. For many of the deprecated functions there's a recommended safe version with the _s suffix, and most of these are proposed for standardization (see, e.g., http://www.open- std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1055.pdf.)
Yep -- looked at that, but it doesn't seem to cover all the deprecated functions -- which is not good :-(
But in the cases I'm talking about, there seem to be no new 'safe' versions. In fact, it's hard see how there could be, since the existing functions already provide a buffer size parameter. For example, what would basic_istream::read_s look like?
Right, got it -- that doesn't make sense. Should we submit a formal bug report?
I'm not against the _s functions, by any means, and I'm willing to cut microsoft some slack in a beta product. But it looks like whoever sprinkled the __declspec's all over the place didn't have a clear idea what he was doing.
Fair enough...hopefully they'll refine the offering in a sensible way before it is released. Jeff