Matt Fago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would say that gets is much more dangerous than %n in printf, but > > presumably Microsoft does not disable gets > > Actually, for gets, and essentially the entire stdio.h, Visual Studio 2005 > generates: > > warning C4996: 'gets': This function or variable may be unsafe. Consider > using gets_s instead. To disable deprecation, use > _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS. See online help for details.
Sure, glibc issues a warning too. But issuing a warning is very different from disabling. Apparently Visual Studio does not warn about %n; it simply disables it. Ian
