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 , _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
