* bfd-in.h (CONST_STRNCPY) : Delete.

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / bfd / bfd-in.h

diff --git a/bfd/bfd-in.h b/bfd/bfd-in.h
index c11880e95374582fcd08785fdb846c973143323e..8d86a239510b3738cd317b50cf1981017d6b43dc 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/bfd-in.h
+++ b/bfd/bfd-in.h
@@ -59,7 +59,12 @@ extern "C" {
    
    Note - these macros do NOT work if STR2 is not a constant string.  */
 #define CONST_STRNEQ(STR1,STR2) (strncmp ((STR1), (STR2), sizeof (STR2) - 1) == 0)
-#define CONST_STRNCPY(STR1,STR2) strncpy ((STR1), (STR2), sizeof (STR2) - 1)
+  /* strcpy() can have a similar problem, but since we know we are
+     copying a constant string, we can use memcpy which will be faster
+     since there is no need to check for a NUL byte inside STR.  We
+     can also save time if we do not need to copy the terminating NUL.  */
+#define LITMEMCPY(DEST,STR2) memcpy ((DEST), (STR2), sizeof (STR2) - 1)
+#define LITSTRCPY(DEST,STR2) memcpy ((DEST), (STR2), sizeof (STR2))
 
 
 /* The word size used by BFD on the host.  This may be 64 with a 32