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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2109162140590.2510762@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:42:40 +0000
From: Joseph Myers <joseph@...esourcery.com>
To: <libc-coord@...ts.openwall.com>
CC: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>, <gcc@....gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Add new ABI '__memcmpeq()' to libc

On Thu, 16 Sep 2021, James Y Knight wrote:

> Wouldn't it be far simpler to just un-deprecate bcmp?

The aim is to have something to which calls can be generated in all 
standards modes.  bcmp has never been part of ISO C; there's nothing to 
undeprecate there.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@...esourcery.com

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