[vtk-developers] Visual Studio 8 "insecure method" warnings

[David Gobbi]

William A. Hoffman wrote:

>At 10:30 AM 2/16/2006, David Gobbi wrote:
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>>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