[vtk-developers] Visual Studio 8 "insecure method" warnings
David Gobbi
dgobbi at atamai.com
Thu Feb 16 11:02:13 EST 2006
William A. Hoffman wrote:
>At 10:30 AM 2/16/2006, David Gobbi wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Bill,
>>
>>Thanks, I can add this to the VTK CMakeLists as well. That way only cleaning
>>up the header files will be necessary. The place we are seeing the warnings is
>>in IGSTK, for which we have a policy of not disabling any valid warnings.
>>
>>
>
>IMO, these are not valid warnings. Basically, the warnings mean stop using
>the ANSI "C" language because it is unsafe. So, unless you are willing to say
>that IGSTK is no longer going to use ANSI C, the warnings are not valid.
>
>
That's pretty much what it boils down to. For IGSTK the concern is that
even valid code
is not always safe code, and there is a strong push away from C arrays
and the C standard
library to the STL.
For a C programmer like myself the IGSTK code looks overly verbose, but
I've gradually
come to understand the reasoning behind it.
- David
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