noalias, again (was extern const)
Dr. T. Andrews
tanner at ki4pv.uucp
Sun Apr 3 02:56:42 AEST 1988
In article <7553 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
) Your (Chris's) example does not illustrate this, but merely reflects
) your misunderstanding of what is guaranteed by existing practice.
It seems to be a common mis-understanding. So far, even the
writers of run-time libraries have suffered from it.
The real net effect of the X3J11 "improvement" of strcpy()
definitions is likely to be that folks need to write their own
version in order to be sure that something useful is done.
A hundred programmers, each dreaming up his own name for strcpy()
instead of using the routine that worked so well pre-X3J11, do
not seem to be aiding the cause of standardization.
) >DMR, where are you when we need you?
) He's working with X3J11 committee members to help get the intended
) functionality correctly specified in the final ANSI C standard.
I'd like to know whose intentions are specified in this "noalias"
functionality. Seems like the original routine did the "right"
thing, working for those fine people wishing to shorten their
strings.
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