Comment by groby_b

15 years ago

Ah, yes, must reduce complexity. That's why we have a basically useless thing like strfry() in glibc. Or memfrob()

Because nothing reduces complexity like code that's completely unusable for any real-world project.

Both those function were added by the original creator of glibc very early on, not by Drepper.

  • True, but I don't see him excising them, either. It's the worst of all possible choices - leave it in and don't maintain it.