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Hi Alex,

> There are many users of bzero(3) in the wild, and it is a fine API from a 
> usability point of view. 

Since you repeatedly claim lots of use of these functions, I did a quick search
on https://codesearch.debian.net/

bzero: 21440
memset: 563054

mempcpy: 4489
memcpy: 692873

I used "memcpy(" and "memcpy (" and added the results. These overestimate
usage due to prototypes and comments, and don't include memcpy and memset
calls emitted by compilers so in reality the results are even more skewed.

There may be other repositories which can be easily searched, but these results
are clear enough to conclude these functions are dead.

Cheers,
Wilco



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