Re: Buffer overflows

From

Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>

Date

Aug 30, 2007, 20:26 UTC

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<46D727E6.1060006@etek.chalmers.se>

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Timo Sirainen wrote:

> Attached once again beginnings of safer string handling functions, which
> should be easy to use to replace the existing string handling code. I
> even thought about creating some kind of an automated tool to do this,
> but that's a bit too much trouble with no gain for myself.

One library worth looking at might be "The Better String Library"[1].

It claims to be both portable, stable, secure and have high performance.

/Lukas

[1] http://bstring.sourceforge.net/