Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@sun.com> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > It would be interesting to know how this interface change could make it
> > into
> > POSIX as the intention of the POSIX standard is not to invalidate existing
> > interfaces.....
>
> Was there ever a formal definition guaranteeing strcpy() worked for
> overlapping
> strings or was that just an accident of the common implementation? The 1989
> C
> standard says it was undefined, and POSIX would build on that, not override
> it.
The 1989 C standard introdued a lot strange things as a result from the
attempts
from Intel to get better benchmark results for the x286.
I suspect that the interface change was an accident introduced by ANSI C
and not introduced by POSIX.
Jörg
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