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Changes in glibc developmentChanges in glibc developmentPosted Mar 28, 2012 7:03 UTC (Wed) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)In reply to: Changes in glibc development by cmccabe Parent article: Changes in glibc development
> Who will break Flash for everyone by changing memcpy to not work with overlapping regions?
Yet again: memcpy isn't guaranteed to work on overlapping regions. Use memmove if you think regions might overlap. Whatever else Drepper did, changing memcpy was perfectly legitimate.
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Changes in glibc development Posted Mar 28, 2012 16:58 UTC (Wed) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]
Linus Torvalds believed that the new memcpy was actually slower, as well as a bad decision from the release management point of view. There's no point in rehashing the discussion, you can find it all here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477
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