[MacPorts] #69571: Add stpncpy to legacy support
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#69571: Add stpncpy to legacy support
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Reporter: ryandesign | Owner: mascguy
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: ports | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
Port: legacy-support |
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Comment (by fhgwright):
I was about to attack this, so you can feel free to assign it to me.
The obvious thing to do is to copy Apple's implementation from the later
OS versions where they provide them. It looks like this happened in
`Libc-825.24`, and never changed since. It's a dumb two-pass
implementation (as is the GCC version shown above) that fails to avoid the
extra overhead that motivated `stpcpy()/stpncpy()` in the first place, but
in keeping with the philosophy of never doing anything better than Apple
in `legacy-support`, it makes sense. Thus, the only real benefit over
`strcpy()/strncpy()` is in compatibility and convenience.
The larger part of the work is in creating tests, since Apple doesn't have
any. One could argue that adding tests for code coped verbatim from Apple
shouldn't really be necessary, but in the interests of completeness, it
makes sense to add them.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/69571#comment:3>
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