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Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Visual C++ 2005 Express Questions

Author: Andrei Fortuna

Date: 08:49:31 09/22/04

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On September 22, 2004 at 10:55:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>I'd stick with Eugene here.  I'd rather get flagged for something that looks
>suspicious, and have to take explicit action to get away with it, rather than to
>accept known problematic code unless the user is sophisticated enough to specify
>that such code should produce a diagnostic.  The inexperienced programmer needs
>all the help he can get.  The experienced programmer will already be playing
>with compiler options for optimization tricks...

Sounds right to me, but isn't this thinking producing compilers that do not
comply to ISO C/C++ with default settings ? sprintf & co of "unsecure" functions
are still part of C/C++ standard libs ...




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