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Question_tcscpy_s and unused buffer part Pin
leon de boer27-Sep-16 5:39
leon de boer27-Sep-16 5:39 
If anyone has a minute can they confirm a weird behaviour of _tcscpy_s which caught me totally off guard that it trashes the unused part of the return buffer.

The code I would like you to test follows, you will need include TCHAR.H for the standard _tcscpy_s function
#include <TCHAR.H>

TCHAR szFilter[512];

memset(szFilter, 0, sizeof(szFilter));   // Zero szFilter
_tcscpy_s(szFilter, _countof(szFilter), _T("All files"));
int i = _tcslen(szFilter);
TCHAR Ch1 = szFilter[i + 2];      // Place a debug here .. Ch1 will be trash .. my nice zeroed buffer is toast

memset(szFilter, 0, sizeof(szFilter));    // Zero szFilter
_tcscpy_s(szFilter, _tcslen(_T("All files"))+1, _T("All files"));
TCHAR Ch2 = szFilter[i + 2];      // Place a debug here .. Ch2 will be 0 as expected


What I am interested in is the part of the buffer the result is not written in. What stunned me was it was all trashed.
Okay the function does not define what it does with the unused parts of the buffer but it seems a waste of time to play with it.
The stranger part is if you lie to the function and make it have just the right size buffer it doesn't trash the buffer.

It's so quirky I am trying to work out if it is a machine/processor dependent implementation of the function.
In vino veritas

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