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strcpy() and wcscpy() Alternatives?

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strcpy() and wcscpy() Alternatives?

born2c0de	14 Jan, 2008 - 11:11 PM Post #1
printf("I'm a %XR",195936478); Joined: 26 Nov, 2004 Posts: 3,906 Thanked: 34 times Dream Kudos: 2800 Expert In: 80x86 Assembly, C/C++, VB6, VB.NET, C#, J2SE, Win32 API, Reversing My Contributions	I'm using VS 2005 to write a Win32 DLL in Visual C++. I have to copy strings (ASCII and Unicode) from a buffer returned by DeviceIOControl(), so I've been using strcpy(), strncpy(), wcscpy() and wcsncpy() for the copy operations. The code works, no problem but VC++ gives me a warning, "warning C4996: 'strncpy' was declared deprecated" What alternatives can I use? I've tried using the cstdlib header file but that doesn't get rid of the Warning either. Thanks.
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jjhaag	RE: Strcpy() And Wcscpy() Alternatives? 14 Jan, 2008 - 11:52 PM Post #2
me editor am smartastic Joined: 18 Sep, 2007 Posts: 1,789 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 775 Expert In: C,C++ My Contributions	MSDN has strncpy_s listed as the non-deprecated version. I believe that the deprecated ones had some security issues because they don't check for sufficient size in the destination character array, and it allows you to write more characters than the destination array has room for.
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born2c0de	RE: Strcpy() And Wcscpy() Alternatives? 15 Jan, 2008 - 12:32 AM Post #3
printf("I'm a %XR",195936478); Joined: 26 Nov, 2004 Posts: 3,906 Thanked: 34 times Dream Kudos: 2800 Expert In: 80x86 Assembly, C/C++, VB6, VB.NET, C#, J2SE, Win32 API, Reversing My Contributions	That did the trick. Thanks jj.
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