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"aborting is correct: unexpected truncation is always a logic bug" How does a function knows what a programmer expects... A lot of use for those potentially tr

by brohee 12y ago

"aborting is correct: unexpected truncation is always a logic bug" How does a function knows what a programmer expects... A lot of use for those potentially truncating functions are for display purpose, where truncating is expected and not a logic bug... A library function potentially exiting is mostly useless.

tankenmate 12y ago
And as the GP said, for those cases that truncating is expected (or not a problem) then use strncpy_s.