Re: Theo chiming in on strlcpy

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

On Sat, 21 Dec 2013, Marc Espie wrote:
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=138733933417096&w=2
> ('On the matter of strlcpy/strlcat acceptance by industry')
>
> Similar statistics in pkgsrc land might be useful.
>
> Or this may get you thinking about trying to make things better, one
> package at a time... :)

There's an idea about teaching the compiler to recognize some "bad" code, 
and while building the bad code to actually replace it with good code[1]. 
(Or was that good & bad reversed? :-)

Maybe that should be done (while thwacking the software authors, too)


 - Hubert

[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html