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A turning point for GNU libc

A turning point for GNU libc

Posted Mar 29, 2012 2:05 UTC (Thu) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205)
In reply to: A turning point for GNU libc by nix
Parent article: A turning point for GNU libc

Is there an ANSI C alternative to strcat and friends? Because if not, such warnings will greatly irritate programmers who compile with -Werror (as well as the usual -W -Wall -Wextra and friends) and -ansi.

Plus, these sorts of pedantic programmers are certainly capable of using strcat safely (which is possible to do, unlike with gets()).


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A turning point for GNU libc

Posted Jan 1, 2013 13:25 UTC (Tue) by shentino (subscriber, #76459) [Link]

They are here to stay, just like the win32 api, x86 architecture, and the qwerty keyboard layout.

anyone trying to replace them will do nothing more than just rock the boat.

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