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From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
To: Joseph Myers <josmyers@redhat.com>
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>,
	 linux-man@vger.kernel.org,  Keith Bostic <keith@bostic.com>,
	 Mark Harris <mark.hsj@gmail.com>,
	 Nevin Liber <nevin@cplusplusguy.com>,
	 JeanHeyd Meneide <phdofthehouse@gmail.com>,
	Christopher Bazley <chris.bazley.wg14@gmail.com>,
	 "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	 Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com>,
	 "Evgeny Grin (Karlson2k)" <k2k@drgrin.dev>,
	 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	bug-gnulib@gnu.org,  libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] man/man3/{mem, strn}*(): SYNOPSIS, STANDARDS: Document these as provided by <memory.h>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:48:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m15x1u7max.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1031c2c-37eb-3cee-8bf0-f3285803d4e3@redhat.com> (Joseph Myers's message of "Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:23:35 +0000 (UTC)")

Joseph Myers <josmyers@redhat.com> writes:

> I'd rather we add a mandatory deprecation warning to memory.h in glibc.

I would be for this change, and am surprised it has not already been
done, to honest. The use of memory.h is a good indicator code hasn't
been touched since the 80s.

Collin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-31 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-31 21:18 [PATCH 0/2] alx-0097r1 - <memory.h>, the legitimate header for memcpy(3) et al Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-31 21:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] man/man3/{mem,strn}*(): SYNOPSIS, STANDARDS: Document these as provided by <memory.h> Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-31 21:23   ` Joseph Myers
2026-07-31 21:28     ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-31 21:54       ` Sam James
2026-07-31 22:18         ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-01  0:12           ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-31 21:51     ` on the irresponsibility of pursuing C language reform (was: [PATCH 1/2] man/man3/{mem,strn}*(): SYNOPSIS, STANDARDS: Document these as provided by <memory.h>) G. Branden Robinson
2026-07-31 21:59       ` on the irresponsibility of pursuing C language reform Sam James
2026-07-31 22:24         ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-07-31 23:19           ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-31 22:10       ` on the irresponsibility of pursuing C language reform (was: [PATCH 1/2] man/man3/{mem,strn}*(): SYNOPSIS, STANDARDS: Document these as provided by <memory.h>) Joseph Myers
2026-07-31 22:21         ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-31 22:28           ` [PATCH 1/2] man/man3/{mem,strn}*(): SYNOPSIS, STANDARDS: Document these as provided by <memory.h> G. Branden Robinson
2026-07-31 22:42           ` on the irresponsibility of pursuing C language reform (was: [PATCH 1/2] man/man3/{mem,strn}*(): SYNOPSIS, STANDARDS: Document these as provided by <memory.h>) Joseph Myers
2026-07-31 22:52             ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-31 23:11               ` Joseph Myers
2026-07-31 23:32                 ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-07-31 23:45                 ` on the irresponsibility of pursuing C language reform (was: " Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-31 23:08             ` [PATCH 1/2] man/man3/{mem,strn}*(): SYNOPSIS, STANDARDS: Document these as provided by <memory.h> G. Branden Robinson
2026-07-31 23:28               ` Joseph Myers
2026-07-31 23:57                 ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-08-01  0:06                   ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-31 22:05     ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-31 22:16       ` Joseph Myers
2026-07-31 22:33         ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-31 23:48     ` Collin Funk [this message]
2026-07-31 23:52       ` [PATCH 1/2] man/man3/{mem, strn}*(): " Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-01  0:01         ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-31 21:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] man/man*/{string.3,memory.h.3head}: Move functions to a new page memory.h(3head) Alejandro Colomar
2026-07-31 21:20 ` [PATCH 0/2] alx-0097r1 - <memory.h>, the legitimate header for memcpy(3) et al Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-01  0:25 ` [PATCH v2] man/man3/mem*(): SYNOPSIS: Document non-standard mem*() functions as provided by <memory.h> Alejandro Colomar

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