Subject: Re: speeding up bzero
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/13/2003 23:06:46
On Saturday, April 12, 2003, at 06:56  AM, David Laight wrote:

> As a slight aside, what is the current ruling on whether the kernel
> bcopy() has to behave like memcpy() or memmove()?
> (wrt overlapped copies).

The kernel has always had "ovbcopy()" for overlapping bcopy.  So, I'd 
think bcopy() should behave like memcpy(), i.e. not bother checking for 
overlap.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>