Eric Blake <e...@byu.net> writes:

> Ben Pfaff <blp <at> cs.stanford.edu> writes:
>> ISO C99 requires that memchr's argument be nonnull even if __c is
>> zero, as follows.  7.21.1 "String function conventions" says that
>> pointer arguments must be valid even if the number of bytes is 0:
>
> But POSIX made the requirement tighter, as an extension to C, and gnulib 
> guarantees the POSIX semantics:

That's great, then.  Possibly very convenient occasionally.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org



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