Secure coding: Difference between revisions

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// copy a maximum of BUF_SIZE bytes

strncpy(dst, user_input, BUF_SIZE);

// set the last character in the buffer to NUL,

dst[BUF_SIZE -1] = '\0';

}

</syntaxhighlight>Another secure alternative is to dynamically allocate memory on the heap using [[malloc]].<syntaxhighlight lang="c++">