C   Ambiguous call to overloaded function
inline void MySafeStrncpy(char *strDest,size_t maxsize,const char *strSource)
{
    if(maxsize)
    {
        maxsize--;
        strncpy(strDest,strSource,maxsize);
        strDest[maxsize]=0;
    }
}

inline void MySafeStrncpy(char *strDest,size_t maxDestSize,
    const char *strSource, size_t maxSourceSize)
{
    size_t minSize=(maxDestSize<maxSourceSize) ? maxDestSize:maxSourceSize;
    MySafeStrncpy(strDest,minSize,strSource);
}

template <size_t size>
void MySafeStrncpy(char (&strDest)[size],const char *strSource)
{
    MySafeStrncpy(strDest,size,strSource);
}

template <size_t sizeDest,size_t sizeSource>
void MySafeStrncpy(char (&strDest)[sizeDest],
    const char (&strSource)[sizeSource])
{
    MySafeStrncpy(strDest,sizeDest,strSource,sizeSource);
}

template <size_t sizeSource>
void MySafeStrncpy(char *strDest,size_t maxDestSize,
    const char (&strSource)[sizeSource])
{
    MySafeStrncpy(strDest,maxDestSize,strSource,sizeSource);
}

char threadname[16];
MySafeStrncpy(threadname,"MainThread");

error C2668: 'MySafeStrncpy' : ambiguous call to overloaded function
>        could be 'void MySafeStrncpy<16,11>(char (&)[16],const char (&)[11])'
>        or       'void MySafeStrncpy<16>(char (&)[16],const char *)'
>        while trying to match the argument list '(char [16], const char [11])'

template <size_t size>
void MySafeStrncpy(char (&strDest)[size],const char *strSource)

template <size_t size, class T>
void MySafeStrncpy(char (&strDest)[size], T strSource)

MySafeStrncpy(threadname,"MainThread");

MySafeStrncpy(threadname, sizeof threadname, "MainThread");