Show HN: I rewrote few of the common core string.h functions

9 deepvinci 10 4/19/2025, 7:16:10 AM github.com ↗
I rewrote the most common core string.h functions in pure C. I mostly did it to learn pointers and string. Would love to get any feedbacks:)

Comments (10)

gthompson512 · 8d ago
Depending on what exactly you are trying to learn from this, I would recommend looking at the source for musl like https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/string and trying to understand why it looks so much more complicated than the simple implementation.
trollied · 8d ago
mparnisari · 8d ago
how do you know that the implementation is correct? i don't see tests
nemothekid · 8d ago
`r_strlen` truncates the output length on 64bit systems (size_t is 64 bits while int is 32 bits).

You should be compiling with -Wall -Werror.

bsima · 8d ago
If you specifically want code review, consider submitting the code to the code review SE https://codereview.stackexchange.com/
dvh · 8d ago
I would rather see some novel, simple, easy to use c string library.
lelanthran · 8d ago
> I would rather see some novel, simple, easy to use c string library.

I dunno about novel, I have used (some of) these functions extensively: https://github.com/lelanthran/libds/blob/master/src/ds_str.h

deepvinci · 7d ago
what does easy means here? can you elaborate?
secondcoming · 8d ago
strcmp doesn’t return a bool.
TheSoftwareGuy · 8d ago
Is this meant to be used in production systems, or is it just a learning exercise?