Simon Josefsson wrote:
> I think this is a useful contribution,
Thanks.
> however I see two deal-breakers
> for having it in gnulib -- both related to use in libraries. I think
> string helpers types/functions like this is useful not only in
> applications but also in libraries. Thus:
>
> 1)
Paul Eggert wrote:
> > I'll add a comment regarding printf with the "%.*s" directive.
>
> That works only if the string lacks NULs
Ouch, indeed.
> and its length fits into int,
> and one must also convert the idx_t length to int (e.g., via a cast
> which I find tricky).
I've now documented th
Thanks for the inputs and feedbacks. Here are the new modules
string-desc,
xstring-desc,
string-desc-quotearg
that I'm adding.
2023-03-28 Bruno Haible
doc: Document string-desc and related modules.
* doc/string-desc.texi: New file.
* doc/gnulib.texi (Particular M
In the HTML-formatted Gnulib documentation, the node for
memset_explicit appears as a child node of the one for memset.
This is obviously not intended, since memset_explicit and memset
are separate functions. This patch fixes it.
2023-03-28 Bruno Haible
doc: Fix placement of memset_ex
Regarding the run-time complexity of the memmem, strstr, strcasestr, wcsstr
implementations:
- For memmem: It's interesting to see that after glibc and musl, now also
FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD have adopted the two-way algorithm
for O(n) behaviour.
- For strcasestr, on the other hand, glibc
