Re: WCHAR

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:06:39 -0500
Message-ID:
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David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com> wrote:

Igor Tandetnik wrote:

See PathAppend, PathCombine


I have never used these two methods, but it is not clear to me that
they are any safer than using strcat.


PathAppend and PathCombine can handle relative paths involving . and ..
references. They also take care of leading and trailing backslashes.

In fact the VC6 documentation contains an example that features a
guaranteed buffer overrun (not to mention two C++ errors, and use of
char rather than TCHAR and <iostream.h> rather than <iostream>).

In the VC7 documentation the buffer overrun is fixed, but the other
problems are still there, including use of <iostream.h> which will not
compile on VC7.


Just because the example is wrong doesn't mean the API itself is bad.
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