enforce()?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
>> C APIs also check their arguments.
> 
> Not the standard C library, as far as I know.  Of course, it's also gotten a lot of flak for this.

Nonono. They check whenever they can. Oftentimes they're unable to check.

Example: fseek checks its whence parameter (mentioned in my previous 
post) but itoa cannot check that the target is a valid memory buffer of 
the appropriate length.


Andrei