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The C standards committee is incredibly conservative, only adding new features if absolutely necessary. Unless the composition and goals of the committee drasti
by pcwalton 8y ago
The C standards committee is incredibly conservative, only adding new features if absolutely necessary. Unless the composition and goals of the committee drastically change, a new standard string API will never happen.
If you must write C, you should use a real string library, and not string.h.
- iforgotpassword 8y agoNonsense, strncpy and friends are just fi2•∟1F↔Ñ
- adiusmus 8y agoLooks like a Perl script I read once.
- astrodust 8y agoThey should have a superset of the C standard for writing "secure C", as is important in some kernel or application code.