bcopy, bzero, bcmp

[Matthias Klose]

Kelly O'Hair schrieb:
> Same thing might be said of bcmp, bzero, stricmp, and strcasecmp.
> Looks like this is just old BSDism cruft that could be deleted.
> (BSD didn't have the mem*() functions as I recall).
> 
> It's possible that some other .so might depend on having this
> extern in libjvm.so, but that strikes me as bad news and if someone
> is depending on it, they should be taken out and shot or something. ;^)
> 
> -kto
> 
> Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Another patch that all distros seem to apply is one to remove the
>> redefine of bcopy in openjdk/hotspot/src/share/vm/libadt/port.hpp.
>>
>> -#undef bcopy
>> -inline void bcopy(const void *s, void *d, size_t len) {
>> memmove(d,s,len); }
>> +//#undef bcopy
>> +//inline void bcopy(const void *s, void *d, size_t len) {
>> memmove(d,s,len); }
>>
>> Now I cannot find any usage of bcopy (or bzero, or bcmp) in hotspot, so
>> the above seems not to actually do anything. But I was wondering why the
>> above might be necessary.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark

In file included from ../generated/incls/_precompiled.incl:271:
/usr/include/bits/string3.h:90: error: 'void bcopy(const void*, void*, size_t)'
previously defined here

Did see the above error, did checkin the attached patch in icedtea6.

  Matthias

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