[PATCH] stpcpy comes from Turbo C [BZ #3629]
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Mon May 23 08:07:00 GMT 2016
On 05/21/2016 12:13 AM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I certainly don't think we need to give exact history on the provenance of
> each interface. A simple statement about current standards is good. But
> that could give the erroneous impression that stpcpy was not available in
> the GNU C Library before it supported POSIX.1-2008. (In fact, AFAICT
> stpcpy has been in libc since before its first release.)
>
> How about this?
>
> This function is part of POSIX.1-2008 and later editions, but was
> available in @theglibc{} and other systems as an extension long
> before it was standardized.
>
> I didn't say "GNU extension" to avoid the implication that we were its
> inventors.
Looks good to me. Do you want me to commit it in your name, or do you
want to commit this yourself?
Thanks,
Florian
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