patch to clean out savestring, copystr, mybzero and mybcopy
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@cygnus.com
Wed Jan 13 15:22:00 GMT 1999
ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu (Kaveh R. Ghazi) writes:
> BTW, the canonical xstrdup in libiberty itself used strcpy. Someday
> when we resolve the host vs build issue in libiberty, all of these
> definitions of xstrdup will go away and we'll just get it from
> libiberty.a.
This is because memcpy was at least in the older days not generally
available. So to avoid requiring a check whether bcopy or memcpy is
available the easiest route was chosen: using strcpy.
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