Safer Alternatives to the C Standard Library

Question

The C standard library is notoriously poor when it comes to I/O safety. Many functions have buffer overflows (gets, scanf), or can clobber memory if n

Answer 1

I use GLib library, it has many good standard and non standard functions.

See https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/

and maybe you fall in love... :)

For example:

https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-String-Utility-Functions.html#g-strdup-printf

explains that g_strdup_printf is:

Similar to the standard C sprintf() function but safer, since it calculates the maximum space required and allocates memory to hold the result.