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revelation on June 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Improving Security in the Latest C Programming Lan...

The _s family of functions is what MSVC has been forcing upon people by claiming all other functions deprecated.

So now the standard is lending nomenclatura and possibly implementation from the company that stoically refuses to implement C99.

batista on June 24, 2012 [–]

Yes, I can see how using more secure functions is a step backwards, because some company not involved in the standard has also used functions by that name...

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