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Re: propose removing strnlen dependency on memchr


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: propose removing strnlen dependency on memchr
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:21:30 +0200

Paul Eggert wrote:
> I considered adding the strnlen module to Emacs, but this had
> the problem of bringing in the memchr module, which is pretty
> heavyweight.  I propose that we remove this dependency, as
> the bugs fixed by the memchr module are not tickled by
> the gnulib strnlen implementation.

Gnulib-fixed memchr bugs affect only glibc 2.10 and 2.11,
and glibc has had strnlen forever.  So I agree.
Nice.



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