Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: "Bug" in strstr() and fix
Message-ID: <1989Oct4.204607.11894@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <19847@princeton.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 89 20:46:07 GMT

In article <19847@princeton.Princeton.EDU> nfs@notecnirp.UUCP (Norbert Schlenker) writes:
>There is a bug (actually a misfeature, since the comments seem to
>indicate intention) in Henry Spencer's strstr() routine.  The most
>recent draft of the ANSI C standard (in 4.11.5.7) says...

Note well that my string functions were built to match an early draft
of ANSI C, and have not been updated.  (An update is now in the works.)
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Nature is blind; Man is merely |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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