On Tue, 2019-11-26 at 23:47 +0000, Jordan Brown wrote: > Here's a paper on the subject: > http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1967.htm I love the fact that the "correct and safe" example they give in "Unnecessary Uses" is neither correct nor safe (it has a potential DOS due to memory leak). However I definitely do agree that the Appendix K functions are of marginal use _at best_... I don't use them or recommend them myself.