[open-source] Re: Wish for 2002 ...

[Markus Friedl]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:44:04AM -0500, Sandy Harris wrote:
> He was talking about brace style, but I think the comment applies here.
> strn*() functions may not be precisely optimal, but they should be used
> in preference to strl*().
> 
> Of course his comments on checking array bounds and on not re-inventing
> libray functions also apply.

i don't think so. even in the past broken APIs have been replaced
by better versions.