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@node strstr
@section @code{strstr}
@findex strstr

POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strstr.html}

Gnulib module: strstr or strstr-simple

Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module @code{strstr-simple}
or @code{strstr}:
@itemize
@item
This function can trigger memchr bugs on some platforms:
glibc 2.10.
@item
This function can trigger false positives for long periodic needles on
some platforms:
glibc 2.12, Cygwin 1.7.7.
@end itemize

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib @code{strstr}:
@itemize
@item
This function has quadratic instead of linear worst-case complexity on some
platforms:
glibc 2.8, MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.2, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 4.0, AIX
5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw.
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function cannot work correctly on character strings in most multibyte
locales.  Gnulib provides an alternative function @code{mbsstr} that works
on character strings in all locales.
@end itemize
author	Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
date	Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:42:24 -0600
parents	1d8a613275c6
children	c65fd41437cf