[Libreoffice] Making our Own Banned.h

[Marc-André Laverdière]

Hello list.

As you all know, there are a bunch of old C APIs that make security 
vulnerabilities trivial to implement. And doing a git grep tells me that 
we use those a plenty.

Now, not all of it may create vulnerabilities, but it is good practice 
to migrate away from those as much as possible.

Microsoft has compiled a useful list:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb288454.aspx

And they have made a header (I'm attaching here) that works on their 
compiler.

Now, I think we should make it multi-platform, so that the whole code 
base can benefit from it. The transition must be gradual, for sure, but 
I think we'd benefit a lot from it in the long run.

What are the compilers that we must handle?
  - Gcc TODO
  - Microsoft's DONE
  - Sun's cc family ???
  - Intel's ???

Regards,

-- 
Marc-André Laverdière
Software Security Scientist
Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad, India
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