Re: strlcpy and how CPUs can defy common sense

John McCue <jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com> wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:36:17 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:
 

The situation only gets worse for the openbsd version here, not better.

 
Not the only time the GNU folks have done something smarter than the BSD
folks.

 
I do not understand this statement in regards to true(1).
 

<http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html>

 
This is interesting
 

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/10/line_break_ep2/>

 
How is GNU's version of true better than OpenBSD's ?

It's definitely better if speed is your only quality critereon.

See page 2 in the articke.

A similar case is yes(1):

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c

versus

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.bin/yes/yes.c

It was discussed in this Hacker News article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14542938

Regards