Re: non-standard const-preserving string APIs

Adhemerval Zanella Netto <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-man
Organization Linaro
Message-ID <[email protected]> 

On 16/05/26 15:15, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm working on documenting the recent API change of strchr(3) et al.
> to adapt to C23.  While doing that, I've realized that the related APIs
> that are not standardized by ISO C, such as memrchr(3), have not been
> changed consistently with their relatives.  Has this been discussed?
> 
> I think the inconsistency might be dangerous.  Should we change the
> other string functions accordingly?
I think it is reasonable to support const-preserving to the GNU interfaces as
well. Are you preparing a patch?
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