[PATCH] stpcpy comes from Turbo C [BZ #3629]

DJ Delorie dj@redhat.com
Tue May 10 16:09:00 GMT 2016


I can confirm it's documented in my Turbo C manual from 1987.  There's
no specific information on where they got it from, other than saying
str*() functions _as a group_ are "available on Unix systems."
(and that K&R define strcat() ;)

> This suggests that the previous speculative attribution to MS-DOS
> (sic) was incorrect.

Of course, Turbo C is an MS-DOS compiler :-)

(for a while it was the dominant MS-DOS compiler)



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