Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:27:31 +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: r286757 - head/lib/libc/string Message-ID: <201508140127.t7E1RVet054568@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: araujo Date: Fri Aug 14 01:27:30 2015 New Revision: 286757 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/286757 Log: Make clear the bcopy(3) manpage regards when it was marked as LEGACY as well as when it was removed from POSIX specification. Reviewed by: theraven, wblock, bapt, rodrigc Approved by: bapt, rodrigc (mentor) Differential Revision: D3374 Modified: head/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 Modified: head/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 ============================================================================== --- head/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 Fri Aug 14 00:19:09 2015 (r286756) +++ head/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 Fri Aug 14 01:27:30 2015 (r286757) @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" @(#)bcopy.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd August 13, 2015 +.Dd August 14, 2015 .Dt BCOPY 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -57,18 +57,6 @@ The two strings may overlap. If .Fa len is zero, no bytes are copied. -.Pp -This function is obsolete (marked as LEGACY in -POSIX.1-2001): please use -.Xr memmove 3 -in new programs. -Note that -.Fn bcopy -takes its src and dst arguments in the opposite -order from -.Xr memmove 3 . -POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of -.Fn bcopy . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr memccpy 3 , .Xr memcpy 3 , @@ -87,3 +75,25 @@ before it was moved to for .St -p1003.1-2001 compliance. +.Pp +The +.St -p1003.1-2008 +removes the specification of +.Fn bcopy +and it is marked as LEGACY in +.St -p1003.1-2004 . +New programs should use +.Xr memmove 3 . +If the input and output buffer do not overlap, then +.Xr memcpy 3 +is more efficient. +Note that +.Fn bcopy +takes +.Ar src +and +.Ar dst +in the opposite order from +.Fn memmove +and +.Fn memcpy .
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