linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 4/5] tools/nolibc: string: Remove the `_nolibc_memcpy

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Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2023 23:27:28 +0200
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:     Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@...weeb.org>
Cc:     Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>,
        Nicholas Rosenberg <inori@...x.org>,
        Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <alviro.iskandar@...weeb.org>,
        Michael William Jonathan <moe@...weeb.org>,
        GNU/Weeb Mailing List <gwml@...r.gnuweeb.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 4/5] tools/nolibc: string: Remove the
 `_nolibc_memcpy_down()` function

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 08:57:25PM +0700, Ammar Faizi wrote:
> This nolibc internal function is not used. Delete it. It was probably
> supposed to handle memmove(), but today the memmove() has its own
> implementation.

Yeah good catch for these two, I'm pretty sure as well they were used
for memmove().

Thanks!
Willy