Re: removing bcopy... because it's half broken

[Richard Henderson]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:19:09PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Gcc _used_ to have a target-specific "do I use bcopy or memcpy" setting,
> and I just don't know if that is still true.

Yes, TARGET_MEM_FUNCTIONS.  It's never not set for Linux targets.
Or for OSF/1 for that matter...  Indeed, it would take me some time
to figure out which targets it's *not* set for.

(Yet another thing that ought to get cleaned up -- either invert the
default value or simply require the target to either provide the libc
entry point or add a version to libgcc.)

I'm not sure how far back you'd have to go to find an Alpha compiler
that needs this.  Prolly back to at least gcc 2.6, but I don't have
sources that old handy to check.



r~
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