-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2 January 1996
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 14 March 1996
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* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
+
+* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
+ number of characters for the null terminator.
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