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ISO/IEC TR 24731-1:2007
Information technology -- Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces -- Extensions to the C library -- Part 1: Bounds-checking interfaces
SKU: iso_038841_119335
Published by ISO/IEC
Publication Year 2007
2 Edition
81 pages
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ISO/IEC TR 24731-1:2007 provides alternative functions for the C Library (as defined in ISO/IEC 9899:1999) that promote safer, more secure programming. The functions verify that output buffers are large enough for the intended result, and return a failure indicator if they are not. Optionally, failing functions call a runtime-constraint handler to report the error. Data is never written past the end of an array. All string results are null terminated. In addition, the functions in ISO/IEC TR 24731-1:2007 are re-entrant: they never return pointers to static objects owned by the function.
ISO/IEC TR 24731-1:2007 also contains functions that address insecurities with the C input-output facilities.