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2010.07.10 13:50 "Re: strlcpy vs strncpy", by Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, Kevin Myers wrote: > > I tend to agree regarding the use of standard implementations rather than > rolling your own whenever possible. However, Bob F. is well versed in > portability issues because of his support for GraphicsMagick on multiple > platforms. If he thinks there are enough compilers in widespread use that > don't support strlcpy to justify rolling his own, then he may be right. Bob > is also a very good programmer, so I suspect that his implementation would be > quite good, and in any event it would be available for subsequent review, > verification, and correction/optimization if necessary. But, couldn't this > kind of thing (roll-your-own vs. standard implmentation) be handled by > autoconf or something like that? Thanks for the kind words. My implementation has been in use for a number of years now, but only gets exercised in the case where the platform does not already offer strlcat/strlcpy. It is not particulary optimized at all, but is written efficiently. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/