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amd64: convert libc bcopy to a C func to avoid future bloat
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Authored by mjg on Oct 12 2018, 8:21 PM.
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The function is of limited use and is an almost a direct clone of memmove/memcpy (with arguments swapped). Introduction of ERMS variants of string routines would mean avoidable growth of libc.

bcopy will get redefined to a __builtin_memmove later on with this symbol only left for compatibility.

memcpy and memmove are now implemented separately.

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lib/libc/amd64/string/bcopy.c
4 ↗(On Diff #49074)

Please change to __FBSDID

8 ↗(On Diff #49074)

string.h includes strings.h.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 13 2018, 6:46 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.