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Note that ISO C only reserves /^str[a-z]/ for <string.h> and <stdlib.h>. POSIX's reservation of /^str_/ (note that you are still allowed for identifiers like str8line) is for STREAMS (<stropts.h>) [1], a completely different thing from strings...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STREAMS



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