Re: [reSIProcate] Issue compiling Security.cxx

[Adam Roach <adam@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/9/13 11:23, Dario Bozzali wrote:

I got the latest trunk revision of Resiprocate repository (10430), but I’m facing an issue while compiling Security.cxx using Visual Studio 2005.

In particular the error that I obtain is the following one:

1>.\ssl\Security.cxx(177) : error C3861: 'snprintf': identifier not found

I think that it could be necessary to use _snprintf instead of snprintf function, for example using a define like in the excerpt of code that I reported below.

The problem here is that snprintf() guarantees null termination, while Windows' _snprintf() does not (which can lead to some really nasty security bugs). Because of this flaw, the general guidance that I offer is that no one should ever use use Windows' _snprintf() -- it's fundamentally broken.

I think what you really need to do is define a new function that wraps _snprintf_s, with a "count" argument set to "_TRUNCATE".

/a