Re: style(9) sweep on config(8)

[Robert Garrett <rg70@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:04:04PM -0500, Dave Cuthbert wrote:
>
> > Chris Pressey wrote:
> >
> > > 	o  Use memset(ptr, 0, size) instead of bzero(ptr, size)
> >
> > Is there a reason why uses of bzero() should be changed to memset()?
>
>
> For the kernel, using bzero is fine. For the userland bzero is BSD
> specific function, while memset is ISO C89.
>
> For timing, they should ~identical.
>
> Joerg
>
>
> > Dave
minus an extra call and return pair, memset is a special case of bzero,
memset is defined by ISO C89 but everybody else now seems has an 
implementation of bzero.

Rob