[lldb-dev] ::bzero "obsolete", recommended to be replaced

Greg Clayton gclayton at apple.com
Wed Feb 2 15:58:05 PST 2011


memset sounds good.

On Feb 2, 2011, at 12:59 PM, kirk.beitz at nokia.com wrote:

> in trying to port lldb to mingw as host, there is complaint about use of bzero.
> 
> i found this net reference to its obsolescence from 2004
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/bzero.html
> 
> i had been thinking of creating just such a #define and special-casing it to windows.
> 
> but if there are no objections, it would seem cleaner to just replace all calls to bzero(...,...) with calls to memset(...,0,...) as suggested with their macro.
> 
> i will be working on a patch for this, and will submit it in the next couple of days to give a chance for objections to be heard.
> 
> ++ kirk beitz : nokia : austin + san diego : kirk.beitz at nokia.com ++
> 
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