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Date:      Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:49:21 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r286651 - head/lib/libc/string
Message-ID:  <201508120049.t7C0nLPI029798@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: araujo
Date: Wed Aug 12 00:49:20 2015
New Revision: 286651
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/286651

Log:
  Describe that bcopy(3) is deprecated and marked as LEGACY in
  POSIX.1-2001 and removed from the specification in POSIX.1-2008.
  New softwares shall use memcpy(3) or memmove(3).
  
  Differential Revision:	D3358
  Reviewed by:		wblock
  Approved by:		rodrigc
  Sponsored by:		gandi.net

Modified:
  head/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3

Modified: head/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3	Tue Aug 11 22:43:28 2015	(r286650)
+++ head/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3	Wed Aug 12 00:49:20 2015	(r286651)
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)bcopy.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dd August 11, 2015
 .Dt BCOPY 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -57,6 +57,20 @@ The two strings may overlap.
 If
 .Fa len
 is zero, no bytes are copied.
+.Pp
+This function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in
+POSIX.1-2001): use
+.Xr memcpy 3
+or
+.Xr memmove 3
+in new programs.
+Note that the first two arguments are
+interchanged for
+.Xr memcpy 3
+and
+.Xr memmove 3 .
+POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of
+.Fn bcopy .
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr memccpy 3 ,
 .Xr memcpy 3 ,



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