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

[Robert Garrett <rg70@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Garrett wrote:
> 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
actually thats not correct on INTEL.. they are seperate instructions, I 
didn't bother to look in /usr/lib/libc/i386/strings

Robert Garrett