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This is directly from N1570 the final version of the C11 revision:

I was referring to the C11 draft, _NOT_ the microsoft garbage.

Yeah, it was replaced by a "safer" alternative gets_s which takes a size parameter.

I have to disagree with your initial assessment regarding gets() being as unsafe as strcpy() is. You can never,...

Again, I have to disagree with you there. While I'll agree that both methods may have drawbacks, lets see which error is easier to spot:


/* You can visually see that b is longer then a */
char...

I'd like to make 2 small but important points here.

First, it's a bad idea to specify the string length when initializing an array with a string literal, Example:


char ar[5] = "Hello George";...