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Comment by wyldfire

2 years ago

So was Drepper wrong? Did he just get worn down? Or did it not involve him at all?

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masklinn  2 years ago

I understand Drepper pretty much considers string.h a lost cause, and I can’t fault him for that.

It’s rather that POSIX decided to add the strl functions, so adding them (and verifying their semantics) is a necessity.

  • silon42  2 years ago

    A purist would support removing strcpy, etc... but that wouldn't go well, so adding an improvement is acceptable.

    • masklinn  2 years ago

      > A purist would support removing strcpy, etc...

      That is very much Drepper’s position:

      > Correct string handling means that you always know how long your strings are and therefore you can you memcpy (instead of strcpy).

      > Beside, those who are using strcat or variants deserved to be punished.

    • Gibbon1  2 years ago

      They should have added a warning for strcpy 20 years ago and shipped the compiler with it default enabled.