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From: jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: BSD rindex, etc.
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Date: 9 Oct 90 23:39:43 GMT
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graham@hparc0.HP.COM (Graham Eddy) writes:
>#define bcopy(s1,s2,n)	memcpy((s2), (s1), n)

Not quite so easy.  bcopy() is defined so that overlapping strings are
handled correctly.  For memcpy(), if  copying takes place between objects
that overlap, the behavior is undefined.

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Jim Wright
jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.