Re: [PATCH] get rid of bcopy warning

["Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> Get rid of warning because internal definition of bcopy
> conflicts with builtin.  The warning is probably a bogus
> bug of GCC 3.2.3, but the workaround is simple.
>
> Almost no driver really uses bcopy anyway, and no code
> uses the return value.

There should never have been a return value from a function
called bcopy() anyway.

>
> diff -Nru a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
> --- a/lib/string.c	Wed Aug 13 11:31:13 2003
> +++ b/lib/string.c	Wed Aug 13 11:31:13 2003
> @@ -432,14 +432,13 @@
>   * You should not use this function to access IO space, use memcpy_toio()
>   * or memcpy_fromio() instead.
>   */
> -char * bcopy(const char * src, char * dest, int count)
> +void bcopy(const void * src, void * dest, size_t count)
>  {
> + 	const char *s = src;
>  	char *tmp = dest;
>
>  	while (count--)
> -		*tmp++ = *src++;
> -
> -	return dest;
> +		*tmp++ = *s++;
>  }
>  #endif
>

This whole thing is bogus. bcopy() is supposed to handle
copies of overlapping buffers (IEEE Std 1003.1-2001).

This means that if destination is at a greater offset than the
source, the data has to be copied backwards. The code above
is broken.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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