[U-Boot] can the last traces of "bcopy" be removed?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Sun May 22 20:54:10 CEST 2016


  just noticed that this is all that's left of "bcopy":

$ grep -rw bcopy *
arch/powerpc/lib/ppcstring.S:	.globl	bcopy
arch/powerpc/lib/ppcstring.S:bcopy:
arch/microblaze/include/asm/string.h:extern void bcopy (const char *, char *, int);
include/linux/string.h:char *bcopy(const char *src, char *dest, int count);
lib/string.c: * bcopy - Copy one area of memory to another
lib/string.c: * memcpy() is the standard, bcopy() is a legacy BSD function.
lib/string.c:char * bcopy(const char * src, char * dest, int count)
$

so, really, no actual usage, and even the microblaze string.h file
contains:

#if 0
#define __HAVE_ARCH_BCOPY
#define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCPY
#define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET
#define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMMOVE

extern void *memcpy (void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
extern void bcopy (const char *, char *, int);
extern void *memset (void *, int, __kernel_size_t);
extern void *memmove (void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
#endif

so unless i'm misreading, can't bcopy() be tossed entirely while no
one's using it and before anyone gets a chance to resurrect it? :-)

rday

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