Comment 148 for bug 727064

I'd personally suggest that glibc just alias memcpy() to memmove().

Yes, clearly overlapping memcpy's are invalid code, but equally clearly they do happen. And from a user perspective, what's the advantage of doing the wrong thing when you could just do the right thing? Optimize the hell out of memmove(), by all means.

Of course, it would be even better if the distro also made it easy for developers to see the bad memcpy's, so that they can fix their apps. Even if they'd _work_ fine (due to the memcpy just doing the RightThing(tm)), fixing the app is also the right thing to do, and this would just make Fedora and glibc look good.

Rather than make it look bad in the eyes of users who really don't care _why_ flash doesn't work, they just see it not working right.

There is no advantage to being just difficult and saying "that app does something that it shouldn't do, so who cares?". That's not going to help the _user_, is it?

And what was the point of making a distro again? Was it to teach everybody a lesson, or was it to give the user a nice experience?