Will you be providing compatability defines?



On 29 Jul 1998, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 
> As I threatened long ago, and as everyone polled seemed to approve of,
> I intend to soon replace all b* functions in the kernel (bcopy, bzero,
> etc.) with the correct mem* functions. This will provide a number of
> benefits, among others the fact that gcc can inline those functions
> on many platforms.
> 
> I have several questions.
> 
> 0) Are there last minute objections?
> 
> 1) In theory, by being smart about when to use memmove (which handles
> overlaps) and when to use memcpy (which does not) we could
> potentially, on some platforms, gain performance in cases where paying 
> attention to overlap isn't necessary. Does anyone think this is
> important, or should I just be "safe" and always replace bcopy with
> memmove?
> 
> 2) Do all our platforms currently have memmove, memcpy, memset, and
> memcmp available in libkern, or am I going to have to fix that first?
> 
> Perry
>