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.\" Linux libc source code
.\" 386BSD man pages
.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:50:48 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
-.\" Interchanged `needle' and `haystack'; added history, aeb, 980113.
-.TH MEMMEM 3 1998-01-13 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.\" Interchanged 'needle' and 'haystack'; added history, aeb, 980113.
+.TH MEMMEM 3 2017-03-13 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
memmem \- locate a substring
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
-.B #define _GNU_SOURCE
-.br
+.BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */"
.B #include <string.h>
-.sp
+.PP
.BI "void *memmem(const void *" haystack ", size_t " haystacklen ,
-.in +\w'void *memmem('u
-.BI "const void *" needle ", size_t " needlelen );
-.in
+.BI " const void *" needle ", size_t " needlelen );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
-The \fBmemmem()\fP function finds the start of the first occurrence
-of the substring \fIneedle\fP of length \fIneedlelen\fP in the memory
-area \fIhaystack\fP of length \fIhaystacklen\fP.
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
-The \fBmemmem()\fP function returns a pointer to the beginning of the
+The
+.BR memmem ()
+function finds the start of the first occurrence
+of the substring
+.IR needle
+of length
+.I needlelen
+in the memory
+area
+.I haystack
+of length
+.IR haystacklen .
+.SH RETURN VALUE
+The
+.BR memmem ()
+function returns a pointer to the beginning of the
substring, or NULL if the substring is not found.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
-This function is a GNU extension.
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
+.BR attributes (7).
+.TS
+allbox;
+lb lb lb
+l l l.
+Interface Attribute Value
+T{
+.BR memmem ()
+T} Thread safety MT-Safe
+.TE
+.SH CONFORMING TO
+This function is not specified in POSIX.1,
+but is present on a number of other systems.
.SH BUGS
-This function was broken in Linux libraries up to and including libc 5.0.9;
-there the `needle' and `haystack' arguments were interchanged,
-and a pointer to the end of the first occurrence of \fIneedle\fP
-was returned. Since libc 5.0.9 is still widely used, this is a
-dangerous function to use.
-.br
-Both old and new libc's have the bug that if \fIneedle\fP is empty
-\fIhaystack\fP-1 (instead of \fIhaystack\fP) is returned.
-And glibc 2.0 makes it worse, and returns a pointer to the
-last byte of `haystack'. This is fixed in glibc 2.1.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.\" This function was broken in Linux libraries up to and including libc 5.0.9;
+.\" there the
+.\" .IR needle
+.\" and
+.\" .I haystack
+.\" arguments were interchanged,
+.\" and a pointer to the end of the first occurrence of
+.\" .I needle
+.\" was returned.
+.\"
+.\" Both old and new libc's have the bug that if
+.\" .I needle
+.\" is empty,
+.\" .I haystack\-1
+.\" (instead of
+.\" .IR haystack )
+.\" is returned.
+In glibc 2.0, if
+.I needle
+is empty,
+.BR memmem ()
+returns a pointer to the last byte of
+.IR haystack .
+This is fixed in glibc 2.1.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR bstring (3),
.BR strstr (3)
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