On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 12:24:23AM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Branden,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 04:32:34PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> > 
> > At 2025-09-18T22:50:42+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 03:19:52PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > > I have to admit I haven't put a priority on this, due to a few
> > > > factors.
> > > > 
> > > > 1.  No exogenous factor is pressing to bump our gnulib submodule to
> > > >     the 2025-07 stable tag.  However, that tag _is_ almost three
> > > >     months old, and I can't delay forever because gnulib
> > > >     releases/tags have a lifespan of only 1 year.
> > > 
> > > When 202601 is out, you'll get streq() and memeq(), and I'll send
> > > patches for them.  :)
> > 
> > Looking forward to that--those should have been in libc in the 1980s!  I

Well, not since 1980, but BitKeeper has had all that stuff for 20-25 years:

https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/src/libc/style.h

> Heh!  There's still people in the C Committee that doesn't like them.

There are people on the C committee that shouldn't be there.  No smiley.

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