Hi Jim, Paul,

Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> On 2024-08-13 09:20, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> While somewhat related, I don't see how an async-safe strcpy would let
>> us remove that function.
>
> Agreed. You can't even use strcpy on 'char volatile *'; C prohibits
> that. Async safety is about something else (admittedly brain-hurting
> :-).

Thanks, I found the original thread prompting the addition of
volatile_strcpy and think I understand now [1].

Apologies for the extra noise. :)

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[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2018-08/msg00013.html



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