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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2016-05-30 Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> + + [BZ #3629] + * manual/string.texi (Copying Strings and Arrays): stpcpy is part + of POSIX.1-2008. + 2016-05-30 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> * sysdeps/mach/hurd/i386/____longjmp_chk.S (____longjmp_chk) [PIC]: diff --git a/manual/string.texi b/manual/string.texi index 016fd0b..58a905e 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}. |