Silence VC8's warnings about "unsafe" CRT functions and POSIX CRT

function names being deprecated, and add a note to perltodo to
revisit this one day.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@29358

3 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index c0841770a1..026f2f6bb7 100644
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -376,6 +376,29 @@ Currently, numerous functions look virtually, if not completely,
 identical in both C<win32/wince.c> and C<win32/win32.c> files, which can't
 be good.
 
+=head2 Use secure CRT functions when building with VC8 on Win32
+
+Visual C++ 2005 (VC++ 8.x) deprecated a number of CRT functions on the basis
+that they were "unsafe" and introduced differently named secure versions of
+them as replacements, e.g. instead of writing
+
+    FILE* f = fopen(__FILE__, "r");
+
+one should now write
+
+    FILE* f;
+    errno_t err = fopen_s(&f, __FILE__, "r"); 
+
+Currently, the warnings about these deprecations have been disabled by adding
+-D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE to the CFLAGS. It would be nice to remove that
+warning suppressant and actually make use of the new secure CRT functions.
+
+There is also a similar issue with POSIX CRT function names like fileno having
+been deprecated in favour of ISO C++ conformant names like _fileno. These
+warnings are also currently suppressed with the compiler option /wd4996. It
+might be nice to do as Microsoft suggest here too, although, unlike the secure
+functions issue, there is presumably little or no benefit in this case.
+
 =head1 Tasks that need a knowledge of XS
 
 These tasks would need C knowledge, and roughly the level of knowledge of
diff --git a/win32/Makefile b/win32/Makefile
index bf0a1bbd82..e4573b560e 100644
--- a/win32/Makefile
+++ b/win32/Makefile
@@ -454,6 +454,12 @@ DEFINES		= $(DEFINES) -DWIN64 -DCONSERVATIVE
 OPTIMIZE	= $(OPTIMIZE) -Wp64 -fp:precise
 !ENDIF
 
+# For now, silence VC++ 8.x's warnings about "unsafe" CRT functions and POSIX
+# CRT function names being deprecated.
+!IF "$(CCTYPE)" == "MSVC80" || "$(CCTYPE)" == "MSVC80FREE"
+DEFINES		= $(DEFINES) -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -wd4996
+!ENDIF
+
 # Use the MSVCRT read() fix if the PerlCRT was not chosen, but only when using
 # VC++ 6.x or earlier. Later versions use MSVCR70.dll, MSVCR71.dll, etc, which
 # do not require the fix.
diff --git a/win32/makefile.mk b/win32/makefile.mk
index 764e3d3aef..09f4b577ae 100644
--- a/win32/makefile.mk
+++ b/win32/makefile.mk
@@ -565,6 +565,12 @@ DEFINES		+= -DWIN64 -DCONSERVATIVE
 OPTIMIZE	+= -Wp64 -fp:precise
 .ENDIF
 
+# For now, silence VC++ 8.x's warnings about "unsafe" CRT functions and POSIX
+# CRT function names being deprecated.
+.IF "$(CCTYPE)" == "MSVC80" || "$(CCTYPE)" == "MSVC80FREE"
+DEFINES		+= -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -wd4996
+.ENDIF
+
 # Use the MSVCRT read() fix if the PerlCRT was not chosen, but only when using
 # VC++ 6.x or earlier. Later versions use MSVCR70.dll, MSVCR71.dll, etc, which
 # do not require the fix.