Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 09:38:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, nate@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 Message-ID: <199606080738.JAA11121@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199606072248.QAA01110@rocky.sri.MT.net> from Nate Williams at "Jun 7, 96 04:48:37 pm"
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As Nate Williams wrote: > I used index for 2 reasons. First, the cop-out reason was because sef > suggested it. Secondly, the kernel tends to use the 'BSD' versions of > things rather than the 'STDC' versions, so I was trying to stay > compatible with the kernel. (ie; we use bzero but not memset, etc..) I think bzero() is a slightly different case. It's not covered by STDC, since the latter does only know about memset(). Depending on the actual architecture however, an implementation of bzero() might be more effective than memset(). I think X11 did also go the route to replace everything except bzero(). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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