+char *va(char *buf, size_t buflen, const char *format, ...) DP_FUNC_PRINTF(3);
+// does a varargs printf into provided buffer, returns buffer (so it can be called in-line unlike dpsnprintf)
+
+/* Some versions of GCC with -Wc++-compat will complain if static_assert
+ * is used even though the macro is valid C11, so make it happy anyway
+ * because having build logs without any purple text is pretty satisfying.
+ * TODO: Disable the flag by default in makefile, with an optional variable
+ * to reenable it.
+ */
+#ifndef __cplusplus
+#define DP_STATIC_ASSERT(expr, str) _Static_assert(expr, str)
+#else
+#define DP_STATIC_ASSERT(expr, str) static_assert(expr, str)
+#endif
+
+// snprintf and vsnprintf are NOT portable. Use their DP counterparts instead
+#undef snprintf
+#define snprintf DP_STATIC_ASSERT(0, "snprintf is forbidden for portability reasons. Use dpsnprintf instead.")
+#undef vsnprintf
+#define vsnprintf DP_STATIC_ASSERT(0, "vsnprintf is forbidden for portability reasons. Use dpvsnprintf instead.")
+
+// documentation duplicated deliberately for the benefit of IDEs that support https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/docblocks.html
+/// Returns the number of printed characters, excluding the final '\0'
+/// or returns -1 if the buffer isn't big enough to contain the entire string.
+/// Buffer is ALWAYS null-terminated.
+extern int dpsnprintf (char *buffer, size_t buffersize, const char *format, ...) DP_FUNC_PRINTF(3);
+/// Returns the number of printed characters, excluding the final '\0'
+/// or returns -1 if the buffer isn't big enough to contain the entire string.
+/// Buffer is ALWAYS null-terminated.
+extern int dpvsnprintf (char *buffer, size_t buffersize, const char *format, va_list args);
+
+// A bunch of functions are forbidden for security reasons (and also to please MSVS 2005, for some of them)
+// LadyHavoc: added #undef lines here to avoid warnings in Linux
+#undef strcat
+#define strcat DP_STATIC_ASSERT(0, "strcat is forbidden for security reasons. Use dp_strlcat or memcpy instead.")
+#undef strncat
+#define strncat DP_STATIC_ASSERT(0, "strncat is forbidden for security reasons. Use dp_strlcat or memcpy instead.")
+#undef strcpy
+#define strcpy DP_STATIC_ASSERT(0, "strcpy is forbidden for security reasons. Use dp_strlcpy or memcpy instead.")
+#undef strncpy
+#define strncpy DP_STATIC_ASSERT(0, "strncpy is forbidden for security reasons. Use dp_strlcpy or memcpy instead.")
+#undef stpcpy
+#define stpcpy DP_STATIC_ASSERT(0, "stpcpy is forbidden for security reasons. Use dp_stpecpy or memcpy instead.")
+#undef ustpcpy
+#define ustpcpy DP_STATIC_ASSERT(0, "ustpcpy is forbidden for security reasons. Use dp_ustr2stp or memcpy instead.")
+#undef ustr2stp
+#define ustr2stp DP_STATIC_ASSERT(0, "ustr2stp is forbidden for security reasons. Use dp_ustr2stp or memcpy instead.")
+#undef sprintf
+#define sprintf DP_STATIC_ASSERT(0, "sprintf is forbidden for security reasons. Use dpsnprintf instead.")
+
+#undef strlcpy
+#define strlcpy DP_STATIC_ASSERT(0, "strlcpy is forbidden for stability and correctness. See common.h and common.c comments.")
+#undef strlcat
+#define strlcat DP_STATIC_ASSERT(0, "strlcat is forbidden for stability and correctness. See common.h and common.c comments.")