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Subject: Re: [PATCH] stpncpy.3, string_copying.7: Clarify that st[rp]ncpy() do
 NOT produce a string
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Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> Not necessarily. For example, in strncpy (DST, SRC, N), SRC need not be 
> a string.

But it will be treated as one, for the purposes of this function.