I'm porting some code to Windows, and the Microsoft compiler (Visual C++ 8) is telling me that strerror() is unsafe.
Putting aside the annoyance factor in all the safe string stuff from Microsoft, I can actually see that some of the deprecated functions are dangerous. But I can't understand what could be wrong with strerror(). It takes a code (int), and returns the corresponding string, or the empty string if that code is not known.
Where is the danger?
Is there a good alternative in C?
Is there a good alternative in C++?
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Having had some good answers, and now understanding that some implementations may be crazy enough to actually write to a common shared buffer - unsafe to reentrancy within a single-thread, never mind between threads! - my question stops being "Why can't I use it, and what are the alternatives?" to "Are there any decent, succinct alternatives in C and/or C++?"