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
next prev 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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