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Date:      Fri, 04 Apr 2003 23:55:47 +0200
From:      des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha support.s src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c support.s src/sys/i386/include md_var.h src/sys/i386/isa npx.c src/sys/ia64/ia64 support.s src/sys/powerpc/powerpc bcopy.c src/sys/sparc64/sparc64 support.S ...
Message-ID:  <xzpk7eac4gs.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20030404212627.GE25811@rot13.obsecurity.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Fri, 4 Apr 2003 13:26:27 -0800")
References:  <200304041729.h34HTtVb027430@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030404173635.GA22147@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030404182223.GA36706@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030404212627.GE25811@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
> I was actually referring to NetBSD's different implementation in my
> question.  Sorry, it wasn't clear from my email.  To rephase it, why
> do NetBSD have ovbcopy() and bcopy() as separate functions?

They don't any more, since 1.4.  There are some scattered remains but
nothing uses them.  In FreeBSD (and 386BSD before it), ovbcopy() has
always been an alias or synonym for bcopy().

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@ofug.org



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