Re: [PATCH v2] lib/string.c: implement stpcpy

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Aug 18 2020 - 04:32:25 EST


On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 08:24 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Nick Desaulniers
> > Sent: 17 August 2020 19:37
> ..
> > That said, this libcall optimization/transformation (sprintf->stpcpy)
> > does look useful to me.
>
> I'd rather get a cow if I ask for a cow...
>
> Maybe checkpatch (etc) could report places where snprintf()
> could be replaced by a simpler function.

You mean sprintf no?

Reminds me of seq_printf vs seq_puts...

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