Microsoft Open-Sources 'Checked C,' A Safer C Version (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader writes from a report via Softpedia: Microsoft has open-sourced Checked C, an extension to the C programming language that brings new features to address a series of security-related issues. As its name hints, Checked C will add checking to C, and more specifically pointer bounds checking. The company hopes to curb the high-number of security bugs such as buffer overruns, out-of-bounds memory accesses, and incorrect type casts, all which would be easier to catch in Checked C. Despite tangible benefits to security, the problem of porting code to Checked C still exists, just like it did when C# or Rust came out, both C alternatives.

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Re:What a Waste of Time

[Anonymous Coward]

strcpy_s is part of the C11 standard, and it was a library addition, not a language change.