Re: [AD] Re: CVS: allegro/src/dos gripjoy.c,1.9,1.10 sndscape.c,1.8,1.9

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Henrik Stokseth wrote:

> "Peter Wang" <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
> > [snip more of the same]
> >
> > ... but there's no need to get silly with this kind of thing.  The
> > strcpy() call was perfectly safe.  Now it's unreadable.
> >    
>
> Yes, that particular codeline was safe as it was. My motivation for changing
> it was something else. Say some sloppy coder changes the string literal in
> the future without checking the buffer size. 

Ok.

> And at last the ISO strncpy() is flawed which means Allegro
> needed a simmilar function. If you don't like the name, feel free to change
> it. al_strncpy() sounds nice.
>  

I was under the impression that I inspired the name :-)

Peter