On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, David Dawes wrote:

> >> Is <strings.h> needed here for Solaris?  I didn't find it necessary for
> >> the Solaris builds I've tried.

> >It provides a prototype for keyboard-cfg.c's and monitor-cfg.c's use of
> >bzero().  An alternative would be to change them to memset()'s.

> Code that uses bzero() should include <X11/Xfuncs.h>, which in most
> cases defines it in terms of memset().

> Are there any platforms we build on that don't provide memset()?  Grepping
> through the source tree, it is used in lots of places, so I'd assume that
> it is safe to replace bzero() with memset().

OK.

> Ideally the compatibility stuff in Xos.h and Xfuncs.h for things
> like index(), rindex(), bcopy(), bzero(), etc would only be used for
> older 3rd party apps, not for code in our source tree.

Well, we do provide them in libc_wrapper...

Anyway, I see cleaning this up as post-4.4 stuff.  There are more pressing
things right now.

Marc.

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