[PATCH] string: Replace outdated comments in strlen().

[Ricardo Bittencourt]

Hi people, by any chance can someone commit this change? I asked for a
sourceware account to do it myself, but it's taking a while, so it
would be best if someone applies this patch meanwhile.

--
Ricardo

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 3:50 PM Ricardo Bittencourt <ricbit@ricbit.com> wrote:
>
> I checked the bug and it's the same comment issue (the comments
> describe an earlier version of the algorithm). After sending this
> patch I can update the others.
>
> The generic string improvements in the bug are better than the current
> implementation, is there something stopping us from just applying it?
>
> --
> Ricardo
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 3:18 PM Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> >
> > Some incidental comments (this is not a review of the patch and should not
> > delay it going in):
> >
> > * Do I understand correctly that this is a *different* comment issue from
> > the one described in bug 5806 with comments in various string functions?
> > (Maybe the issue described in comment#10 in that bug?)
> >
> > * I'd still like to see the generic string function improvements discussed
> > in that bug getting into glibc at some point.
> >
> > --
> > Joseph S. Myers
> > joseph@codesourcery.com