Further tiny bcopy cleanup

Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10106221417030.28044-100000@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@10831

3 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary
index 136810b1a7..8449a910c0 100644
--- a/Porting/Glossary
+++ b/Porting/Glossary
@@ -1281,11 +1281,13 @@ d_rmdir (d_rmdir.U):
 
 d_safebcpy (d_safebcpy.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_BCOPY symbol if
-	the bcopy() routine can do overlapping copies.
+	the bcopy() routine can do overlapping copies.  Normally, you
+	should probably use memmove().
 
 d_safemcpy (d_safemcpy.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_MEMCPY symbol if
 	the memcpy() routine can do overlapping copies.
+	For overlapping copies, memmove() should be used, if available.
 
 d_sanemcmp (d_sanemcmp.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SANE_MEMCMP symbol if
diff --git a/Porting/config.sh b/Porting/config.sh
index b85b5060e8..0ca0ec88e5 100644
--- a/Porting/config.sh
+++ b/Porting/config.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 # Package name      : perl5
 # Source directory  : .
-# Configuration time: Thu Jun 21 23:32:02 EET DST 2001
+# Configuration time: Sat Jun 23 00:03:07 EET DST 2001
 # Configured by     : jhi
 # Target system     : osf1 alpha.hut.fi v4.0 878 alpha 
 
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ ccsymbols='__alpha=1 __LANGUAGE_C__=1 __osf__=1 __unix__=1 _LONGLONG=1 _SYSTYPE_
 ccversion='V5.6-082'
 cf_by='jhi'
 cf_email='yourname@yourhost.yourplace.com'
-cf_time='Thu Jun 21 23:32:02 EET DST 2001'
+cf_time='Sat Jun 23 00:03:07 EET DST 2001'
 charsize='1'
 chgrp=''
 chmod=''
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ d_recvmsg='define'
 d_rename='define'
 d_rewinddir='define'
 d_rmdir='define'
-d_safebcpy='define'
+d_safebcpy='undef'
 d_safemcpy='undef'
 d_sanemcmp='define'
 d_sbrkproto='define'
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ patchlevel='7'
 path_sep=':'
 perl5='/u/vieraat/vieraat/jhi/Perl/bin/perl'
 perl=''
-perl_patchlevel='10764'
+perl_patchlevel='10824'
 perladmin='yourname@yourhost.yourplace.com'
 perllibs='-lm -liconv -lutil -lpthread -lexc'
 perlpath='/opt/perl/bin/perl'
@@ -870,7 +870,7 @@ PERL_SUBVERSION=1
 PERL_API_REVISION=5
 PERL_API_VERSION=5
 PERL_API_SUBVERSION=0
-PERL_PATCHLEVEL=10764
+PERL_PATCHLEVEL=10824
 PERL_CONFIG_SH=true
 # Variables propagated from previous config.sh file.
 pp_sys_cflags='ccflags="$ccflags -DNO_EFF_ONLY_OK"'
diff --git a/Porting/config_H b/Porting/config_H
index 235021cedf..3c14554bc9 100644
--- a/Porting/config_H
+++ b/Porting/config_H
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 /*
  * Package name      : perl5
  * Source directory  : .
- * Configuration time: Thu Jun 21 23:32:02 EET DST 2001
+ * Configuration time: Sat Jun 23 00:03:07 EET DST 2001
  * Configured by     : jhi
  * Target system     : osf1 alpha.hut.fi v4.0 878 alpha 
  */
@@ -1832,17 +1832,17 @@
 
 /* HAS_SAFE_BCOPY:
  *	This symbol, if defined, indicates that the bcopy routine is available
- *	to copy potentially overlapping memory blocks. Otherwise you should
+ *	to copy potentially overlapping memory blocks. Normally, you should
  *	probably use memmove() or memcpy(). If neither is defined, roll your
  *	own version.
  */
-#define HAS_SAFE_BCOPY	/**/
+/*#define HAS_SAFE_BCOPY	/ **/
 
 /* HAS_SAFE_MEMCPY:
  *	This symbol, if defined, indicates that the memcpy routine is available
- *	to copy potentially overlapping memory blocks. Otherwise you should
- *	probably use memmove() or memcpy(). If neither is defined, roll your
- *	own version.
+ *	to copy potentially overlapping memory blocks.  If you need to
+ *	copy overlapping memory blocks, you should check HAS_MEMMOVE and
+ *	use memmove() instead, if available.
  */
 /*#define HAS_SAFE_MEMCPY	/ **/