Should memchr work with invalid data size?

[Andreas Schwab]

On Mai 18 2017, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:

> POSIX is more clear:
>
> | Implementations shall behave as if they read the memory byte by byte
> | from the beginning of the bytes pointed to by s and stop at the
> | first occurrence of c (if it is found in the initial n bytes).
>
> This language is not found in C99.

In C11 it has been amended and says basically the same:

"The implementation shall behave as if it reads the characters
sequentially and stops as soon as a matching character is found."

Andreas.

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