Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:36:35 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] get rid of bcopy warning
Message-Id: <20030813113635.3d3b71ce.shemminger@osdl.org>
Organization: Open Source Development Lab
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Get rid of warning because internal definition of bcopy
conflicts with builtin.  The warning is probably a bogus
bug of GCC 3.2.3, but the workaround is simple.

Almost no driver really uses bcopy anyway, and no code
uses the return value.

diff -Nru a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
--- a/lib/string.c	Wed Aug 13 11:31:13 2003
+++ b/lib/string.c	Wed Aug 13 11:31:13 2003
@@ -432,14 +432,13 @@
  * You should not use this function to access IO space, use memcpy_toio()
  * or memcpy_fromio() instead.
  */
-char * bcopy(const char * src, char * dest, int count)
+void bcopy(const void * src, void * dest, size_t count)
 {
+ 	const char *s = src;
 	char *tmp = dest;
 
 	while (count--)
-		*tmp++ = *src++;
-
-	return dest;
+		*tmp++ = *s++;
 }
 #endif
 
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