Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <005101c2d54a$e70732a0$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , "Charles Wilson" References: <20030215210505.GA29578@redhat.com> <010601c2d537$decb05c0$78d96f83@pomello> <20030215215840.GA3446@redhat.com> <3E4EC408.8070500@ece.gatech.edu> <004201c2d546$ba7482a0$78d96f83@pomello> <3E4ECC52.50609@ece.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:35:19 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Charles Wilson wrote: > No. I'm going to fix memcpy. If it ain't broke, don't mess with it. > memcpy is broken. I'll fix *that*. > >> Isn't this the first time anyone has reported these problem >> prototypes messing up a compile? > > Nope; I've done it several times. 'course, my solution at those times > was the same as yours: submit a patch to cygwin.din. > > And really, it's hard to blame most packages for simply assuming that > if (e.g.) memcpy.h exists then Well Of COURSE memcpy() is available. > > Slightly more paranoid maintainers might simply die during configure > if memcpy() can't be found. Only the truly obsessed-with-portability > would provide alternate implementations (bcopy?) if memcpy() wasn't > found, but memcpy.h was. 3 things: - The issue here was mempcpy, not memcpy - Cygwin *doesn't* have a memcpy.h - I still don't understand what you are going to fix - am I missing the obvious? Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/