Implementation of C11 Bounds-checking interfaces

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Thu Nov 1 19:50:00 GMT 2012


On 10/31/2012 01:40 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> Having what are ostensibly variants of the same function behave 
> incompatibly like that seems a very bad idea to me. 

Not only is it a bad idea, it would seem to contradict C11
section K.3.5.3.3 paragraph 4, which says that printf_s must
be equivalent to printf except for the runtime-constraint
checking.



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