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

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From: Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]>
To: Sam James <[email protected]>
Cc: Joseph Myers <[email protected]>, [email protected], 
	Keith Bostic <[email protected]>, Mark Harris <[email protected]>, 
	Nevin Liber <[email protected]>, JeanHeyd Meneide <[email protected]>, 
	Christopher Bazley <[email protected]>, "Serge E. Hallyn" <[email protected]>, 
	Iker Pedrosa <[email protected]>, "Evgeny Grin (Karlson2k)" <[email protected]>, 
	Kees Cook <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] man/man3/{mem,strn}*(): SYNOPSIS, STANDARDS:
 Document these as provided by <memory.h>
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Hi Sam,

> Date: 2026-08-01 00:19:03+0200
> From: Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]>
>
> > Date: 2026-07-31 22:54:27+0100
> > From: Sam James <[email protected]>
> >
[...]
> > People want it to reflect what the standard says.
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> And it still does.

Hmmm, this has implications.  The functions that are non-standard, can
be changed as of now, because, well, there's no standard saying
otherwise.

Maybe that's a good move.  A commit now changing the following functions
the be documented as provided by <memory.h>, without any mentions to
<string.h>, simply because there's no standard mandating otherwise:

	-  strndupa(3)
	-  mempcpy(3)
	-  memrchr(3)
	-  memmem(3)
	-  memfrob(3)

Which is a nice introduction for this header file.

Then we can leave discussion of the standard functions for later.
If what the standard says is the problem, let's focus on what it doesn't
say.


Cheers,
Alex

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