[PATCH] stpcpy comes from Turbo C [BZ #3629]
Roland McGrath
roland@hack.frob.com
Fri May 27 19:49:00 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?
Please do commit something like this.
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