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reply Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
Just saw this on John Ratcliff's Code Suppository 
http://codesuppository.blogspot.com/

"""
When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2005 and had the unmitigated gall 
to issue a warning message for 'printf' I about blew a gasket. Now my 
code is littered with '#pragma warning(disable:4996)' to prevent VS2005 
from throwing warnings everywhere for 100% perfectly ANSII C compliant 
code!!!!!!!!!!
"""

I haven't done much with VS2005 yet, because I found it to be rather 
more slow and bloated than VS2003, and they yet again changed all the 
key bindings around for no apparently good reason.  And yeh, the "you 
must use our new and improved secure standard library" warning messages 
are annoying too.   I think that's what John is referring to there.

--bb
Jul 12 2008
next sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:
Bill Baxter wrote:

 I haven't done much with VS2005 yet, because I found it to be rather 
 more slow and bloated than VS2003, and they yet again changed all the 
 key bindings around for no apparently good reason.  And yeh, the "you 
 must use our new and improved secure standard library" warning messages 
 are annoying too.   I think that's what John is referring to there.


Probably. Printf is unsafe.
Jul 12 2008
prev sibling next sibling parent JAnderson <ask me.com> writes:
Bill Baxter wrote:

 Just saw this on John Ratcliff's Code Suppository 
 http://codesuppository.blogspot.com/
 
 """
 When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2005 and had the unmitigated gall 
 to issue a warning message for 'printf' I about blew a gasket. Now my 
 code is littered with '#pragma warning(disable:4996)' to prevent VS2005 
 from throwing warnings everywhere for 100% perfectly ANSII C compliant 
 code!!!!!!!!!!
 """
 
 I haven't done much with VS2005 yet, because I found it to be rather 
 more slow and bloated than VS2003, and they yet again changed all the 
 key bindings around for no apparently good reason.  And yeh, the "you 
 must use our new and improved secure standard library" warning messages 
 are annoying too.   I think that's what John is referring to there.
 
 --bb


Why not just disable the warning in the compiler settings if you don't 
agree with it.  Are there some cases where you want that warning?

-Joel
Jul 13 2008
prev sibling parent Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail> writes:
Bill Baxter wrote:

 Just saw this on John Ratcliff's Code Suppository 
 http://codesuppository.blogspot.com/
 
 """
 When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2005 and had the unmitigated gall 
 to issue a warning message for 'printf' I about blew a gasket. Now my 
 code is littered with '#pragma warning(disable:4996)' to prevent VS2005 
 from throwing warnings everywhere for 100% perfectly ANSII C compliant 
 code!!!!!!!!!!
 """
 
 I haven't done much with VS2005 yet, because I found it to be rather 
 more slow and bloated than VS2003, and they yet again changed all the 
 key bindings around for no apparently good reason.  And yeh, the "you 
 must use our new and improved secure standard library" warning messages 
 are annoying too.   I think that's what John is referring to there.
 
 --bb


That's one of the practically-useless warnings I got in the situation I 
mentioned here:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=74201

Like JAndersen mentioned, I simply disabled that kind of warnings 
globally in the compiler settings. I don't see why one would have to 
litter one's code with various '#pragma warning(disable:4996)'. That 
seems somewhat stupid, and reveals a lack of proficiency with the tool 
(VS) he's using, no?

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - Software Developer, MSc. in CS/E graduate
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D
Jul 27 2008