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<title>Implement C23 const-preserving standard library macros</title>
<updated>2025-11-20T19:31:04+00:00</updated>
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<name>Joseph Myers</name>
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<published>2025-11-20T19:30:27+00:00</published>
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C23 makes various standard library functions, that return a pointer
into an input array, into macros that return a pointer to const when
the relevant argument passed to the macro is a pointer to const.  (The
requirement is for macros, with the existing function types applying
when macro expansion is suppressed.  When a null pointer constant is
passed, such as integer 0, that's the same as a pointer to non-const.)

Implement this feature.  This only applies to C, not C++, since such
macros are not an appropriate way of doing this for C++ and all the
affected functions other than bsearch have overloads to implement an
equivalent feature for C++ anyway.  Nothing is done to apply such a
change to any non-C23 functions with the same property of returning a
pointer into an input array.

The feature is also disabled when _LIBC is defined, since there are
various places in glibc that either redefine these identifiers as
macros, or define the functions themselves, and would need changing to
work in the presence of these macro definitions.  A natural question
is whether we should in fact change those places and not disable the
macro definitions for _LIBC.  If so, we'd need a solution for the
places in glibc that define the macro *before* including the relevant
header (in order in effect to disable the header declaration of the
function by renaming that declaration).

One testcase has #undef added to avoid conflicting with this feature
and another has const added; -Wno-discarded-qualifiers is added for
building zic (but could be removed once there's a new upstream tzcode
release that's const-safe with this C23 change and glibc has updated
to code from that new release).  Probably other places in glibc proper
would need const added if we remove the _LIBC conditionals.

Another question would be whether some GCC extension should be added
to support this feature better with macros that only expand each
argument once (as well as reducing duplication of diagnostics for bad
usages such as non-pointer and pointer-to-volatile-qualfied
arguments).

Tested for x86_64.
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C23 makes various standard library functions, that return a pointer
into an input array, into macros that return a pointer to const when
the relevant argument passed to the macro is a pointer to const.  (The
requirement is for macros, with the existing function types applying
when macro expansion is suppressed.  When a null pointer constant is
passed, such as integer 0, that's the same as a pointer to non-const.)

Implement this feature.  This only applies to C, not C++, since such
macros are not an appropriate way of doing this for C++ and all the
affected functions other than bsearch have overloads to implement an
equivalent feature for C++ anyway.  Nothing is done to apply such a
change to any non-C23 functions with the same property of returning a
pointer into an input array.

The feature is also disabled when _LIBC is defined, since there are
various places in glibc that either redefine these identifiers as
macros, or define the functions themselves, and would need changing to
work in the presence of these macro definitions.  A natural question
is whether we should in fact change those places and not disable the
macro definitions for _LIBC.  If so, we'd need a solution for the
places in glibc that define the macro *before* including the relevant
header (in order in effect to disable the header declaration of the
function by renaming that declaration).

One testcase has #undef added to avoid conflicting with this feature
and another has const added; -Wno-discarded-qualifiers is added for
building zic (but could be removed once there's a new upstream tzcode
release that's const-safe with this C23 change and glibc has updated
to code from that new release).  Probably other places in glibc proper
would need const added if we remove the _LIBC conditionals.

Another question would be whether some GCC extension should be added
to support this feature better with macros that only expand each
argument once (as well as reducing duplication of diagnostics for bad
usages such as non-pointer and pointer-to-volatile-qualfied
arguments).

Tested for x86_64.
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<title>Implement C23 memset_explicit (bug 32378)</title>
<updated>2025-10-01T15:14:09+00:00</updated>
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<name>Joseph Myers</name>
<email>josmyers@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-10-01T15:14:09+00:00</published>
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Add the C23 memset_explicit function to glibc.  Everything here is
closely based on the approach taken for explicit_bzero.  This includes
the bits that relate to internal uses of explicit_bzero within glibc
(although we don't currently have any such internal uses of
memset_explicit), and also includes the nonnull attribute (when we
move to nonnull_if_nonzero for various functions following C2y, this
function should be included in that change).

The function is declared both for __USE_MISC and for __GLIBC_USE (ISOC23)
(so by default not just for compilers defaulting to C23 mode).

Tested for x86_64 and x86.
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Add the C23 memset_explicit function to glibc.  Everything here is
closely based on the approach taken for explicit_bzero.  This includes
the bits that relate to internal uses of explicit_bzero within glibc
(although we don't currently have any such internal uses of
memset_explicit), and also includes the nonnull attribute (when we
move to nonnull_if_nonzero for various functions following C2y, this
function should be included in that change).

The function is declared both for __USE_MISC and for __GLIBC_USE (ISOC23)
(so by default not just for compilers defaulting to C23 mode).

Tested for x86_64 and x86.
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<title>Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights</title>
<updated>2025-01-01T19:22:09+00:00</updated>
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<name>Paul Eggert</name>
<email>eggert@cs.ucla.edu</email>
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<published>2025-01-01T18:14:45+00:00</published>
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<title>Refer to C23 in place of C2X in glibc</title>
<updated>2024-02-01T11:02:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joseph Myers</name>
<email>josmyers@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2024-02-01T11:02:01+00:00</published>
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WG14 decided to use the name C23 as the informal name of the next
revision of the C standard (notwithstanding the publication date in
2024).  Update references to C2X in glibc to use the C23 name.

This is intended to update everything *except* where it involves
renaming files (the changes involving renaming tests are intended to
be done separately).  In the case of the _ISOC2X_SOURCE feature test
macro - the only user-visible interface involved - support for that
macro is kept for backwards compatibility, while adding
_ISOC23_SOURCE.

Tested for x86_64.
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WG14 decided to use the name C23 as the informal name of the next
revision of the C standard (notwithstanding the publication date in
2024).  Update references to C2X in glibc to use the C23 name.

This is intended to update everything *except* where it involves
renaming files (the changes involving renaming tests are intended to
be done separately).  In the case of the _ISOC2X_SOURCE feature test
macro - the only user-visible interface involved - support for that
macro is kept for backwards compatibility, while adding
_ISOC23_SOURCE.

Tested for x86_64.
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<title>Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights</title>
<updated>2024-01-01T18:53:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Eggert</name>
<email>eggert@cs.ucla.edu</email>
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<published>2024-01-01T18:12:26+00:00</published>
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<title>Implement strlcpy and strlcat [BZ #178]</title>
<updated>2023-06-14T16:10:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Weimer</name>
<email>fweimer@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2023-06-14T16:10:08+00:00</published>
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These functions are about to be added to POSIX, under Austin Group
issue 986.

The fortified strlcat implementation does not raise SIGABRT if the
destination buffer does not contain a null terminator, it just
inherits the non-failing regular strlcat behavior.

Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar &lt;siddhesh@sourceware.org&gt;
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These functions are about to be added to POSIX, under Austin Group
issue 986.

The fortified strlcat implementation does not raise SIGABRT if the
destination buffer does not contain a null terminator, it just
inherits the non-failing regular strlcat behavior.

Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar &lt;siddhesh@sourceware.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>&lt;string.h&gt;: Make strchrnul, strcasestr, memmem available by default</title>
<updated>2023-04-06T14:41:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Weimer</name>
<email>fweimer@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2023-04-06T14:40:44+00:00</published>
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FreeBSD makes them available by default, too, so there does not seem
to be a reason to restrict these functions to _GNU_SOURCE.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
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FreeBSD makes them available by default, too, so there does not seem
to be a reason to restrict these functions to _GNU_SOURCE.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
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<title>Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights</title>
<updated>2023-01-06T21:14:39+00:00</updated>
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<name>Joseph Myers</name>
<email>joseph@codesourcery.com</email>
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<published>2023-01-06T21:08:04+00:00</published>
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<title>string.h: Fix boolean spelling in comments</title>
<updated>2022-06-03T17:22:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H.J. Lu</name>
<email>hjl.tools@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2022-06-03T17:22:38+00:00</published>
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<title>Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights</title>
<updated>2022-01-01T19:40:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Eggert</name>
<email>eggert@cs.ucla.edu</email>
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<published>2022-01-01T18:54:23+00:00</published>
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I used these shell commands:

../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc &amp;&amp; git commit -am"[this commit message]")

and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 7061 files FOO.

I then removed trailing white space from math/tgmath.h,
support/tst-support-open-dev-null-range.c, and
sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-vec.S, to work around the following
obscure pre-commit check failure diagnostics from Savannah.  I don't
know why I run into these diagnostics whereas others evidently do not.

remote: *** 912-#endif
remote: *** 913:
remote: *** 914-
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
...
remote: *** error: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/statx_cp.c: trailing lines
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I used these shell commands:

../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc &amp;&amp; git commit -am"[this commit message]")

and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 7061 files FOO.

I then removed trailing white space from math/tgmath.h,
support/tst-support-open-dev-null-range.c, and
sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-vec.S, to work around the following
obscure pre-commit check failure diagnostics from Savannah.  I don't
know why I run into these diagnostics whereas others evidently do not.

remote: *** 912-#endif
remote: *** 913:
remote: *** 914-
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
...
remote: *** error: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/statx_cp.c: trailing lines
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