Why does _stprintf_s overwrite other variables, but _stprintf is not?

I am using visual studio for a win32 programming class. I have a global array of string, declared as TCHAR **bufTh

, allocated in memory, like

bufTh = (TCHAR**)malloc(nOfTh*sizeof(TCHAR*));
for (i = 0; i < nOfTh; i++)
    bufTh[i] = (TCHAR*)malloc(BUF_LEN*sizeof(TCHAR));

      

        
        
        
      

    

then I have some streams each writing to a different string in that array. I noticed that if I use _stprintf_s(bufTh[iTh], BUF_LEN, _T("%s\\"), findData.cFileName);

, after this operation, some other global variables (in my case semaphores) are overwritten, and if I use _stprintf

(without _s) everything will be fine.

Why? Where am I going wrong?

I also tried as an experiment to use a struct array containing a string, for example typedef struct{TCHAR buf[BUF_LEN];} mystr_t;

, and then allocated bufTh = (mystr_t*)malloc(nOfTh*sizeof(mystr_t));

. In this case, it _stprintf_s

works as expected, which does not cause problems.

EDIT: here is mcve

#define UNICODE
#define _UNICODE
#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
#define _CRT_NON_CONFORMING_SWPRINTFS
#include <Windows.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define BUF_LEN _MAX_PATH+1

typedef struct{
    DWORD iTh;
} tdata_t;

TCHAR **bufTh;
PHANDLE sem;

//DWORD WINAPI rThread(LPVOID pThParam);

int _tmain(int argc, LPTSTR argv[]){
    DWORD   i, nOfTh;
    PHANDLE hthread;
    tdata_t *tdata;

    nOfTh = 1;

    // global array of buffers, one for each reading thread
    bufTh = (TCHAR**)malloc(nOfTh*sizeof(TCHAR*));
    for (i = 0; i < nOfTh; i++)
        bufTh[i] = (TCHAR*)malloc(BUF_LEN*sizeof(TCHAR)); 

    // array of thread data, to pass to threads
    tdata = (tdata_t*)malloc(nOfTh*sizeof(tdata_t));
    for (i = 0; i < nOfTh; i++){
        tdata[i].iTh = i;
    }

    // array of semaphores, one for each thread
    sem = (PHANDLE)malloc((nOfTh)*sizeof(HANDLE)); 
    for (i = 0; i < nOfTh; i++)
        sem[i] = CreateSemaphore(NULL, 0, 1, NULL);

    // array of threads
    /*hthread = (PHANDLE)malloc(nOfTh*sizeof(HANDLE));
    for (i = 0; i < nOfTh; i++)
        hthread[i] = CreateThread(NULL, 0, &rThread, (LPVOID)&tdata[i], 0, NULL);*/

    i = 0;
    // BREAKPOINT HERE
    _stprintf_s(bufTh[i], BUF_LEN, _T("%s\\"), _T("the string that I want to write there"));
    // BREAKPOINT HERE
    WaitForSingleObject(sem[i], INFINITE);



    //WaitForMultipleObjects(nOfTh, hthread, TRUE, INFINITE);
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}