bcopy(3) is deprecated, update the manpage.
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Authored by araujo on Aug 11 2015, 2:54 AM.

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rS286651: Describe that bcopy(3) is deprecated and marked as LEGACY in

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This function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001): use
memcpy(3) or memmove(3) in new programs. Note that the first two
arguments are interchanged for memcpy(3) and memmove(3.) POSIX.1-2008
removes the specification of bcopy.()

We shall update the bcopy(3) manpage.

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This looks OK.
In addition, it would not hurt to run the textproc/igor port to verify that your man page changes are OK.

wblock added inline comments.Aug 11 2015, 3:08 PM

lib/libc/string/bcopy.3
71 ↗	(On Diff #7831)	A space is needed before the period: .Xr memmove 3 .
73 ↗	(On Diff #7831)	A space is needed before the period here also: .Fn bcopy .

In D3358#68337, @rodrigc wrote:

This looks OK.
In addition, it would not hurt to run the textproc/igor port to verify that your man page changes are OK.

Hi @rodrigc, thank you for the suggestion.
I did run igor and mandoc to test it.

All the best.

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