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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 c
by Night_Thastus 4y ago
>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.
- zabzonk 4y agoit 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.