* Shawn Landden: > +This function was deprecated (marked as LEGACY) by POSIX.1-2001). > POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of > .BR bcmp (). > +LLVM 9, released in 2019, revived > +.BR bcmp () > +and generates calls to it instead of > +.BR memcmp (3) > +as appropiate as an optimization (as > +.BR bcmp () > +need not traverse memory in-order). > +.\" http://releases.llvm.org/9.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#noteworthy-optimizations This is a pessimation on GNU/Linux if the program uses memcmp as well because it introduces another relocation. Thanks, Florian
