remove most occurences of strcpy/strcat#4
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those functions are insecure and in the case of strcat even slow, since the strlen has to be checked on each call. they are considered a code-smell; instead, snprintf should be used. snprintf(buf, sizeof buf, "%s", mystring) is the only way offered by C99 to do a bounds-checked copy of a string (and after parsing the format string (which should only take a handful of cycles), performance is identical to a naive strcpy implementation using a for loop until 0 is hit). note that strncpy() always fills the entire buffer, so it is a performance hog.
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note that using size_t is needed whenever dealing with sizes: http://ewontfix.com/9/
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those functions are insecure and in the case of strcat even slow,
since the strlen has to be checked on each call.
they are considered a code-smell; instead, snprintf should be used.
snprintf(buf, sizeof buf, "%s", mystring) is the only way offered
by C99 to do a bounds-checked copy of a string (and after parsing
the format string (which should only take a handful of cycles),
performance is identical to a naive strcpy implementation using
a for loop until 0 is hit).
note that strncpy() always fills the entire buffer, so it is a
performance hog.