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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha support.s src/sys/i386/i386
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
> I was actually referring to NetBSD's different implementation in my
> question.  Sorry, it wasn't clear from my email.  To rephase it, why
> do NetBSD have ovbcopy() and bcopy() as separate functions?

They don't any more, since 1.4.  There are some scattered remains but
nothing uses them.  In FreeBSD (and 386BSD before it), ovbcopy() has
always been an alias or synonym for bcopy().

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