[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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