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Re: config related patch (and how to start handling Debian patches)


From: Benjamin Riefenstahl
Subject: Re: config related patch (and how to start handling Debian patches)
Date: 15 Feb 2003 19:01:52 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2

Hi Bob,

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
> This small patch switches emacs to prefer the mem* functions rather
> than the b* functions when they're available since at least under
> GNU/Linux, the b* appear to be deprecated.  However, if this
> deprecation isn't common, the following patch might not be the right
> thing to do.

bzero() etc are deprecated since the C language standard preferred
memset() etc instead in 1989, more than 13 years ago.  Not even the
POSIX standard has bzero() etc.  Just my personal impressions of
course ;-) ...

so long, benny






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