libstdc++/2767

[Stephen M. Webb]

On Tue, 08 May 2001, you wrote:
> |Regardless, the current implementation is incorrect, as this declaration doesn't exist:
> |      extern "C" const char* strchr(const char*, int); 
> |     should be
> |      extern "C" char* strchr(const char*, int); 
>  
> I am puzzled. Stroustrup says in his book "The C++ programming
> language" (special edition) on page 599:
> 
> "Functions for manipulating C-style strings are found in <string.h>
> and <cstring>:
> ...
> const char* strchr(const char*, int);
> char* strchr(char*, int);"
> 
> On the following page he mentions the "C standard library definition,
> not C++" of strchr:
> 
> char* strchr(cont char*, int);
> 
> This is the same as stated in the book "C, a refrence manual by
> Harbison and Steele. 
> 
> Therefore, I believe, the prototypes in the current libstdc++
> implementation for strchr are indeed correct. 
> 
> One has to cope with the different signatures for the C and the C++
> versions of the function strchr (among others). 

The prototypes in the ISO C++ standard should be considered the correct ones.

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Stephen M. Webb
Principal Consultant, Bregmasoft
stephen at bregmasoft dot com