Hi Paul, > All I'm saying is that the gnulib variant shouldn't > use a name starting with "mem", because the mem* names have similar > properties and the gnulib variant departs dramatically from these > properties. > > The "strdup"/"strndup" functions are cases in point. Their names were > controversial, and they had quite some trouble getting into POSIX, precisely > because their names began with "str" but (unlike the other str* functions) > they allocated memory.
But now they are in POSIX. So, precedent is existing. On the other hand, it has now appeared that strxfrm would be easier to use efficiently if it had a wrapper that incorporated the "allocate 3 * len bytes before calling strxfrm" heuristic. If we add such a wrapper to gnulib, it could be called 'astrxfrm' extern char * astrxfrm (const char *s, char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp); and then I would agree to renaming memxfrm -> amemxfrm, for consistency. Bruno
