What is the reason for strlcpy.c to copy the arguments into local variables: size_t strlcpy(char *dst, const char *src, size_t siz) { char *d = dst; const char *s = src; size_t n = siz; /* Co...

#include<string.h> #include<stdio.h> void main() { char *str1="hello"; char *str2="world"; strcat(str2,str1); printf("%s",str2); } If I run this program, I'm getting run time prog...

The C standard library string.h contains several functions to manipulate strings, all of which start with str and end with an abbreviation. Some of these abbreviations are obvious: strlen string ...

char s1[] = "0"; char s2[] = "9"; printf("%d\n", strcmp(s1, s2)); // Prints -9 printf("%d\n", strcmp("0", "9")); // Prints -1 Why do strcmp returns different values when it receives the sam...

I was looking for this on internet and in every place with the functions of string.h these two are not mentioned. Is because what? They aren't in every compiler?

What is the significant difference between memcpy() and strncpy()? I ask this because we can easily alter strncpy() to copy any type of data we want, not just characters, simply by casting the firs...

Which is the best way to include the standard header string.h in a C++ project? Using the [dot]h at the end, like this: #include <string.h> or just writing #include <string> Or, m...

I want to optimize some code such that all the functions in string.h will be inlined. I'm on x86_64. I've tried -O3, -minline-all-stringops and when I do "nm a.out" it shows it is calling the glib...