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SubjectRe: bcopy()

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> >XFS seems to be a big user of bcopy, though..
>
> Does it matter from the cleanliness side? (1->N users)

It does.

I will not apply a patch that removes bcopy() in the name of
"cleanliness", if it then results in a number of modules just adding their
own

#define bcopy(a,b,c) memcpy(b,a,c)

because then the whole cleanup would be pointless - it would just make
some modules even uglier than they were before.

So I'd much rather see the XFS etc code moved away from bcopy() first,
because that's the _real_ cleanup. The library code isn't all that ugly in
comparison.

Linus

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