Should we remove all internal usages of bcopy/bzero?

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Sun Sep 16 18:14:00 GMT 2001


"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> There are a few internal usages of bcopy/bzero. Should we replace them
> with memmove/memset?

bcopy: yes.  bzero: not really.  There shouldn't be many bcopy uses
left.  And yes, there is a reason: one less PLT entry.

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