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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2015-12-10 08:17:18 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2015-12-10 08:29:30 -0800
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Split large string section; add truncation advice
* manual/examples/strncat.c: Remove.
This example was misleading, as the code would have undefined
behavior if "hello" was longer than SIZE.  Anyway, the manual
shouldn't encourage strncpy+strncat for this sort of thing.
* manual/string.texi (Copying Strings and Arrays): Split into
three sections Copying Strings and Arrays, Concatenating Strings,
and Truncating Strings, as this section was way too long.  All
cross-referenced changed.  Add advice about string-truncation
functions.  Remove misleading strncat example.
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@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ type that exists only for this purpose.
 This is an unsigned integer type used to represent the sizes of objects.
 The result of the @code{sizeof} operator is of this type, and functions
 such as @code{malloc} (@pxref{Unconstrained Allocation}) and
-@code{memcpy} (@pxref{Copying and Concatenation}) accept arguments of
+@code{memcpy} (@pxref{Copying Strings and Arrays}) accept arguments of
 this type to specify object sizes.  On systems using @theglibc{}, this
 will be @w{@code{unsigned int}} or @w{@code{unsigned long int}}.