From 6a182dddd96b4ae8fb9664e39c7ef2c40e6979ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcelo Araujo Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:27:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Make clear the bcopy(3) manpage regards when it was marked as LEGACY as well as when it was removed from POSIX specification. Reviewed by: theraven, wblock, bapt, rodrigc Approved by: bapt, rodrigc (mentor) Differential Revision: D3374 --- lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 b/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 index 19a71e1f6155..c1bb80744d07 100644 --- a/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 +++ b/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" @(#)bcopy.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd August 13, 2015 +.Dd August 14, 2015 .Dt BCOPY 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -57,18 +57,6 @@ The two strings may overlap. If .Fa len is zero, no bytes are copied. -.Pp -This function is obsolete (marked as LEGACY in -POSIX.1-2001): please use -.Xr memmove 3 -in new programs. -Note that -.Fn bcopy -takes its src and dst arguments in the opposite -order from -.Xr memmove 3 . -POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of -.Fn bcopy . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr memccpy 3 , .Xr memcpy 3 , @@ -87,3 +75,25 @@ before it was moved to for .St -p1003.1-2001 compliance. +.Pp +The +.St -p1003.1-2008 +removes the specification of +.Fn bcopy +and it is marked as LEGACY in +.St -p1003.1-2004 . +New programs should use +.Xr memmove 3 . +If the input and output buffer do not overlap, then +.Xr memcpy 3 +is more efficient. +Note that +.Fn bcopy +takes +.Ar src +and +.Ar dst +in the opposite order from +.Fn memmove +and +.Fn memcpy .