Is there a way to use fopen_s() with GCC or at least create a #define about it?
if you are using C11, fopen_s
is a standard library.
In gcc
you need to use --std=c11
parameter.
Microsoft's *_s
functions are unportable, I usually use equivalent C89/C99 functions and disable deprecation warnings (#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
).
If you insist, you can use an adaptor function (not necessarily a macro!) that delegates fopen()
on platforms that don't have fopen_s()
, but you must be careful to map values of errno_t
return code from errno
.
errno_t fopen_s(FILE **f, const char *name, const char *mode) {
errno_t ret = 0;
assert(f);
*f = fopen(name, mode);
/* Can't be sure about 1-to-1 mapping of errno and MS' errno_t */
if (!*f)
ret = errno;
return ret;
}
However, I fail to see how fopen_s()
is any more secure than fopen()
, so I usually go for portability.
In C/C++ code,
#ifdef __unix
#define fopen_s(pFile,filename,mode) ((*(pFile))=fopen((filename),(mode)))==NULL
#endif
In Makefile
CFLAGS += -D'fopen_s(pFile,filename,mode)=((*(pFile))=fopen((filename),(mode)))==NULL'
Attention that on success fopen_s return 0 while fopen return a nonzero file pointer. Therefore it is necessary to add "==NULL" to the end of macro, e.g.:
if (fopen_s(&pFile,filename,"r")) perror("cannot open file");