egcs-1.1 in SCOV5 changes memcpy() into buggy SCO bcopy()
Robert Lipe
robertl@dgii.com
Sat Sep 19 22:27:00 GMT 1998
Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
>
> In message < 19980917001647.E1141@dgii.com >you write:
> > > When a C program uses memcpy(), the assembly generated calls bcopy().
> >
> > I never noticed that before. I was pretty mystified. I ran the same
> > compiler source on a Linux system and generated more obvious output.
> Deep dark corners of the compiler you never wanted to know about.
>
> Defining TARGET_MEM_FUNCTIONS is definitely the right think to do if
> all the sco5 versions have them.
Eric didn't respond to the request asking if it was better or worse.
So I took Jeff's comment as permission/encouragment to commit this.
Done.
RJL
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