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| author | araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-08-12 00:49:20 +0000 |
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| committer | araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-08-12 00:49:20 +0000 |
| commit | b9e6da17b9766600007546d2f8e4cf74f35db279 (patch) | |
| tree | 228cb547787ad9227b6f50b96ea99e3aa20b8a88 /lib/libc/string | |
| parent | bbd79549070c177afd786d0486133058ba511695 (diff) | |
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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
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/string')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 b/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 index 1608fad..ede910b 100644 --- a/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 +++ b/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 @@ -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 , |
