Unfortunately, much of the pain with C surrounds dealing with strings. It’s been a bit of a theme on Hacker News for the past few days, but it’s actually a pretty good spotlight on something I feel is not always appreciated - strings in C are actually hard, and even the most safe standard functions like strlcpy and strlcat are still only good if truncation is a safe option in a given circumstance (it isn’t always.)
(~~Technically~~ Optionally, C11 has strcpy_s and strcat_s which fail explicitly on truncation. So if C11 is acceptable for you, that might be the a reasonable option, provided you always handle the failure case. Apparently, though, it is not usually implemented outside of Microsoft CRT.)
(~~Technically~~ Optionally, C11 has strcpy_s and strcat_s which fail explicitly on truncation. So if C11 is acceptable for you, that might be the a reasonable option, provided you always handle the failure case. Apparently, though, it is not usually implemented outside of Microsoft CRT.)
edit: Updated notes regarding C11.