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Reentrant Function Lists


Both Microsoft and Borland provide lists of functions that are reentrant. There appear to be a number of additional functions that are reentrant except when they report error messages via DOS.

Reentrant Functions for Microsoft C 5.1

abs      labs     memset    strcmpi   strnset
atoi     lfind    mkdir     strcpy    strrchr
atol     lsearch  movedata  stricmp   strrev
bsearch  memccpy  putch     strlen    strset
chdir    memcpy   strcat    strncmp   srstr
getpid   memcmp   segread   strncat   strupr
halloc   memcpy   strcat    strncmp   swab
hfree    memicmp  strchr    strncpy   tolower
itoa     memmove  strcmp    strnicmp  toupper

Reentrant Functions for Borland C++ 3.0

Note: /oi option in-line functions

memchr   memcmp   memset   stpcpy   strcat
strchr   strcmp   strcpy   strlen   strncat
strncmp  strncpy  strnset  strrchr  rotl
rotr     fabs     alloca

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