[PATCH 1/2] man/man3/{mem,strn}*(): SYNOPSIS, STANDARDS: Document these as provided by <memory.h>

Alejandro Colomar alx@kernel.org
Fri Jul 31 21:28:31 GMT 2026


Hi Joseph,

> Date: 2026-07-31 21:23:35+0000
> From: Joseph Myers <josmyers@redhat.com>
>
> I think it's irresponsible to use the man-pages project to promote 
> personal idiosyncratic ideas like this in preference to what's been the 
> standard location of functions since 1989.
> 
> I'd rather we add a mandatory deprecation warning to memory.h in glibc.

I hope you don't; it'd be a gratuitous breaking change.


Have a lovely night!
Alex

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