From c30c3f46a5f2e60639dab888c487397b579942e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland McGrath Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 13:28:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] stpcpy is part of POSIX.1-2008 [BZ #3629] --- ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ manual/string.texi | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 3eee1b286e..042fb893e2 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2016-05-30 Roland McGrath + + [BZ #3629] + * manual/string.texi (Copying Strings and Arrays): stpcpy is part + of POSIX.1-2008. + 2016-05-30 Samuel Thibault * sysdeps/mach/hurd/i386/____longjmp_chk.S (____longjmp_chk) [PIC]: diff --git a/manual/string.texi b/manual/string.texi index 016fd0b9a0..58a905e6d9 100644 --- a/manual/string.texi +++ b/manual/string.texi @@ -612,9 +612,9 @@ and @samp{bar} to produce @samp{foobar}, which it then prints. @include stpcpy.c.texi @end smallexample -This function is not part of the ISO or POSIX standards, and is not -customary on Unix systems, but we did not invent it either. Perhaps it -comes from MS-DOG. +This function is part of POSIX.1-2008 and later editions, but was +available in @theglibc{} and other systems as an extension long before +it was standardized. Its behavior is undefined if the strings overlap. The function is declared in @file{string.h}.