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