[31] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
re: bcopy vs. memcpy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Strand)
Thu Oct 18 16:29:29 1990
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 90 15:18:26 CDT
From: bstrand@poplar.cray.com (Brad Strand)
To: krb5-testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc:
>>Point 2: does anyone besides me think that kerberos V5 should use the
>>ANSI-C "mem*" functions instead of the less-standard BSD
>>"bcopy/bcmp/bzero"?
>EWOULDBENICE... this is on the list of things to clean up before final
>release. I use bcopy/bcmp/bzero since I know the argument order, and I
>haven't had the chance to retrain my mind to understand the mem* stuff.
>John
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I prefer the BSD stuff simply because
they check for and properly handle overlapping input/output
buffer conditions. (Not that I encourage this practice ;-)
BDS
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