On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 06:53:12PM +0000, Miod Vallat wrote: > > >> Is there any reson you use bcopy() not memcpy()? > > >> If not considder using memcpy() please. :) > > > > > We couldn't care what you believe, unless you have diffs of your own > > > to submit. > > > > I think the guy there asked if there is any difference, it was just that. I > > also don't know bcopy() and would like to know just out of curiosity (I'm > > really don't know, isn't not an irony): there's some difference between > > bcopy() and memcpy()? > > Yes, the order of the arguments. bcopy is intuitive: since you copy FROM > somewhere TO somewhere, the arguments are FROM, TO, LENGTH. memcpy has > FROM and TO exchanged, which is stupid. Some people argue this is > because it is similar to an assignment, where you write DEST = SRC. But > function calls are hardly assignments in my book.
Err. shame on strcpy on being dest, src ? Why don't you compaign to have miodstrlcpy( ) ?
