Item — HN Reader

I guess the idea is that if the code does not crash at this line:

    DEBUGASSERT(slen < dsize);

it means it succeeded. Although some compilers will remove the assertions in release builds.

I would have preferred an explicit error code though.

1 comments

assert() is always only compiled if NDEBUG is not defined. I hope DEBUGASSERT is just that too because it really sounds like it, even more so than assert does.

But regardless of whether the assert is compiled or not, its presence strongly signals that "in a C program strcpy should only be used when we have full control of both" is true for this new function as well.