> in 2014, Theo scolded me when i tried to use strnlen(3) at some > place in mandoc where it wasn't really important, pointing out that > some systems still didn't have it, and saying: "Let me say simply: > Yuck." And indeed, i promptly got reports about compile failures > on Solaris.
Right. > However, in the case at hand, it really helps readability > in a function (unavoidably) already longer than comfortable > for reading it. And it is internal use.