Youre mission: Free the C standard committee

From the ENTERPRISERS and the Microsofts
Examples of them being hurt/harmful: C11 Annex K (bad copy-paste of MS's "safe" functions, see http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1118.htm), C11 Threads and atomics, the C11 aligned_alloc function is made to match MS's one, etc

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The _s family of functions is a travesty on so many levels. Their sole proponent, Microsoft, doesn't even implement them as specified by the standard!

Just compare the behavior described at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8ef0s5kh.aspx to TR 24731 - in order to achieve behavior resembling the standard, anyone using Microsoft's C runtime library must call a Microsoft specific function, _set_invalid_parameter_handler, and register a do-nothing function to allow invocations of _s functions to return without killing the whole program. Why Microsoft would push to get this garbage of theirs standardized and then ignore the standard is beyond me.