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Compiler Warning C4789

September 1, 2009 Sep 1, 2009 09/1/09
Visual CPP Team
When Visual Studio 2010 ships, it will have improvements to warning C4789; allowing it to catch more cases of buffer overrun. This blog post will cover what C4789 warns about, and how to resolve the warning.What does C4789 mean? When compiling your source file, you may receive the warning: “warning C4789: destination of memory copy ...