Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Oct 2002 08:45:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: bcopy() |
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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, David Howells wrote: > > I've dicussed it with a number of people, and the general consensus seems to > be that it should be nuked entirely? Do you agree?
I agree. bcopy should just DIE. Some architectures may have historical trouble with gcc emitting bcopy for structure assignments (and that's definitely a memcpy with no overlap), but I think that's long gone (I know gcc on alpha used to do this several years ago).
XFS seems to be a big user of bcopy, though..
Linus
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