svn commit: r316213 - in head: include lib/libc/include lib/libc/stdlib lib/libc/string lib/libc/tests/stdlib lib/libc/tests/string sys/sys

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 02:10:55AM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> The thing about the Annex K is that it is not used by anything AFAICT,
> so I guess it would be considered bloat but with Microsoft being such
> a good open-source citizen lately perhaps it will find uses in the
> near future. If you have a complete implementation and it is as clean
> as this piece looks I think I would not object towards bringing it to
> base in lib/. Eventually I guess people may ask to bring it into libc
> as compliance to standards is never bad.

Apparently it is used by some commercial code, as Apple and Juniper
examples demonstrate. It is not my implementation, I worked as somewhat
experienced commit monkey there, only bringing the proposed patch up to
the libc expectations.  I have no plans on working on this stuff at all.