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Re: [PATCH] stpcpy comes from Turbo C [BZ #3629]


On 05/21/2016 12:13 AM, Roland McGrath wrote:
I certainly don't think we need to give exact history on the provenance of
each interface.  A simple statement about current standards is good.  But
that could give the erroneous impression that stpcpy was not available in
the GNU C Library before it supported POSIX.1-2008.  (In fact, AFAICT
stpcpy has been in libc since before its first release.)

How about this?

	This function is part of POSIX.1-2008 and later editions, but was
	available in @theglibc{} and other systems as an extension long
	before it was standardized.

I didn't say "GNU extension" to avoid the implication that we were its
inventors.

Looks good to me. Do you want me to commit it in your name, or do you want to commit this yourself?

Thanks,
Florian


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