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bkelly1315-Sep-12 15:34
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AnswerRe: better version of strcpy() and printf() Pin
pasztorpisti16-Sep-12 1:37
pasztorpisti16-Sep-12 1:37 
Here is my opinion: strcpy is totally useless and totally unsafe. Use a string class in C++ and assign one string to another instead of strcpy. You can even implement refcounting if you write your own string class and then assignment will be super fast. You can of course use std::string for your needs.

If you write you own string class or if you extend your own string class from std::string then you can put in a format and vformat function (similarly to the MFC CString class) and you can do formatting so that the buffer size will be managed automatically for you. Here is an example to that: How to Format a String[^]. I would mention only one thing regarding this formatting function in the link: The use of the std::vector is unnecessary, you could put the string formatting directly to the string. even in that case the string resizing unnecessarily fills the whole string with a fill character before formatting the string into its buffer. With a custom string you can write more optimal code for this task.

The type safety of format parameters with the vararg nature of format functions is still endangering your program. Using the bad parameter types make your program crash at runtime when the formatting code gets executed. Example to a buggy formatting statement: format("Name: %s\n", 5). Gcc has an __attribute__ format printf to defend against such mistakes at compile time. You can mark you format function with this attribute and then gcc will catch such errors, it would find out for exmple that "%s" and 5 are not compatible. Unfortunately visual C++ doesn't have such feature but our current project is crossplatform so we compile it with both VC++ and gcc and this gcc feature is priceless.

Unfortunately this kind of formatting is too widespread and comfortable without similarly comfortable alternatives so this wont be dropped easily from C++. However a feature like the one gcc has can make this stuff quite usable and safe.
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