http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46513
--- Comment #4 from Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail dot com> 2010-11-17 03:49:44 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > Hi Jonathan, > > (In reply to comment #1) > > The maintainers of GNU libc, the C and C++ committees and the POSIX working > > group have not seen fit to include those functions, and they're not > > available > > on my GNU/Linux box. > Interesting. In 2010, I was hoping the strl* functions would side step the > political mess of TR24731-1 on *nix. For those resisting, TR24731-1 is now a > normative part of the C1x draft (as Annex K), so its coming whether they want > it or not :/ I stand corrected: C1X draft dated 2010-10-04 now includes the bounds checking interfaces. See "C1X Draft", http://www.open-std.org/Jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1516.pdf at http://www.open-std.org/Jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/projects. So in addition to [nearly ubiquitous] support for strlcpy and friends, we will have strcpy_s and friends. Jeff
