Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 01:42:19 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: joelh@gnu.org, nate@mt.sri.com, rnordier@nordier.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning Message-ID: <19980530014218.62162@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199805292330.QAA23999@usr05.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, May 29, 1998 at 11:30:55PM %2B0000 References: <199805292157.OAA01107@dingo.cdrom.com> <199805292330.QAA23999@usr05.primenet.com>
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On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 11:30:55PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > While we are on the subject of portability problems, doesn't anyone > else find it annoying that memcpy() is not guaranteed to work on > overlapping memory ranges, yet we are migrating bcopy() to memcpy() > as time goes on? Grrrr... memmove() is for the cases where you're not guaranteed to be non-overlapping, exctly like bcopy(). memcpy() is for those cases where you know that you don't have overlaps. I don't find this problematic, no. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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