Re: bcopy()

[Linus Torvalds]

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