Get rid of bzero and replace it with memset.
Get rid of bzero and replace it with memset.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Mats Kindahl
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Mats Kindahl
- Completed by
- Mats Kindahl
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I have been told that the current approach is to follow C99 and POSIX as far as possible. As such, there is a number of other BSD:isms that are deprecated in POSIX.1-2001 and have C99 equivalents, these will be removed as well.
bcopy() can be replaced with memmove(), but looking at the implementation of bcopy() in the strings/ directory I see that it does not handle overlapping memory correctly. In that case, I assume that most calls can be replaced with memcpy() instead.
bfill() can be replaced with memset()
bmove() (which is non-standard) can be replaced with memcpy()
bcmp() can be replaced with memcmp()
memcpy_fixed() seems to be a "fix" for a gcc problem in Alpha, which then proceeded to use bcopy() instead. I assume that the problem is fixed by now, and in anyway, we should fix the problem by re-defining memcpy() instead, if it is faulty. I will remove memcpy_fixed() and replace it with memcpy() instead.
