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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

Standard Details

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.

General Information

Status : Published
Standard Type: Main
Document No: ISO/IEC TR 24731-1:2007
Document Year: 2007
Pages: 81
Edition: 2
  • Section Volume:
  • ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22. Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
  • ICS:
  • 35.060 Languages used in information technology

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