This is a live mirror of the Perl 5 development currently hosted at https://github.com/perl/perl5
Further tiny bcopy cleanup
[perl5.git] / uconfig.h
index 8c862f1..28beb65 100644 (file)
--- a/uconfig.h
+++ b/uconfig.h
 
 /* HAS_SAFE_BCOPY:
  *     This symbol, if defined, indicates that the bcopy routine is available
- *     to copy potentially overlapping memory blocks. Otherwise you should
+ *     to copy potentially overlapping memory blocks. Normally, you should
  *     probably use memmove() or memcpy(). If neither is defined, roll your
  *     own version.
  */
 
 /* HAS_SAFE_MEMCPY:
  *     This symbol, if defined, indicates that the memcpy routine is available
- *     to copy potentially overlapping memory blocks. Otherwise you should
- *     probably use memmove() or memcpy(). If neither is defined, roll your
- *     own version.
+ *     to copy potentially overlapping memory blocks.  If you need to
+ *     copy overlapping memory blocks, you should check HAS_MEMMOVE and
+ *     use memmove() instead, if available.
  */
 /*#define HAS_SAFE_MEMCPY      / **/