svn commit: r286651 - head/lib/libc/string
Marcelo Araujo
araujo at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 12 00:49:21 UTC 2015
Author: araujo
Date: Wed Aug 12 00:49:20 2015
New Revision: 286651
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/286651
Log:
Describe that bcopy(3) is deprecated and marked as LEGACY in
POSIX.1-2001 and removed from the specification in POSIX.1-2008.
New softwares shall use memcpy(3) or memmove(3).
Differential Revision: D3358
Reviewed by: wblock
Approved by: rodrigc
Sponsored by: gandi.net
Modified:
head/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3
Modified: head/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 Tue Aug 11 22:43:28 2015 (r286650)
+++ head/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 Wed Aug 12 00:49:20 2015 (r286651)
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\" @(#)bcopy.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dd August 11, 2015
.Dt BCOPY 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -57,6 +57,20 @@ The two strings may overlap.
If
.Fa len
is zero, no bytes are copied.
+.Pp
+This function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in
+POSIX.1-2001): use
+.Xr memcpy 3
+or
+.Xr memmove 3
+in new programs.
+Note that the first two arguments are
+interchanged for
+.Xr memcpy 3
+and
+.Xr memmove 3 .
+POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of
+.Fn bcopy .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr memccpy 3 ,
.Xr memcpy 3 ,
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