Consensus on MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs.
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
Thu Nov 21 20:54:00 GMT 2013
On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Rich Felker wrote:
> All AS-safe functions have the potential to modify errno (since all
> functions in the standard library do); many are even required to
> modify it. When using any library function in a signal handler, it's
Right - though there's a case for saying that the intended API for some
functions such as memcpy is to be AS-safe and never modify errno.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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