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Re: Implementation of C11 Bounds-checking interfaces
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 10/31/2012 08:26 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> Do you have a reference to the public discussion?
>
> Which one? :-)
>
> There's a *brief* summary in
> <http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/FAQ#Why_no_strlcpy_.2BAC8_strlcat.3F>.
Paul, Rich,
Thanks for the pointers and reminders about why we don't have Annex K
in glibc today.
Given the differing opinions, and existing good practice it seems like
there is no need to include Annex K in glibc. Though that in no way
means Annex K is not useful, just that it doesn't meet our criteria
for inclusion in the library.
Cheers,
Carlos.