From owner-cvs-sys Sat Jun 8 03:30:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-sys Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA14453 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 03:30:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA14108; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 03:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA01832; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 12:29:14 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA28285; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 12:29:13 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA11121; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 09:38:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606080738.JAA11121@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 09:38:18 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, nate@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199606072248.QAA01110@rocky.sri.MT.net> from Nate Williams at "Jun 7, 96 04:48:37 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)