Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 10:21:25 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: mdf@freebsd.org Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Subject: Re: svn commit: r221604 - head/usr.sbin/usbdump Message-ID: <BANLkTikoE3D7xDzJ-Z0izX_2SzeOtq9U2g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimi_Em60n9MZRTcgBDvycqH-pKL5g@mail.gmail.com> References: <201105071628.p47GSO16006145@svn.freebsd.org> <201105071836.00660.hselasky@c2i.net> <BANLkTimi_Em60n9MZRTcgBDvycqH-pKL5g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 10:13 AM, <mdf@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> wr=
ote:
>> On Saturday 07 May 2011 18:28:24 Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>> =A0 - Use memcpy() instead of bcopy().
>>
>> - Use memset() instead of bzero().
>
> Why? =A0It usually falls through to the same code in libc. =A0Is there
> some standardization on memfoo versus bfoo here?
bfoo is marked legacy per POSIX 2001.1; example:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/bcopy.html .
A lot of folks (Linux leading the charge) are actively working to
deprecate the APIs.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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