Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!jimp
From: jimp@cognos.UUCP (Jim Patterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: BSD rindex, etc.
Message-ID: <8910@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 90 13:53:31 GMT
References: <8155@milton.u.washington.edu> <1510008@hparc0.HP.COM>
Reply-To: jimp@cognos.UUCP (Jim Patterson)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1510008@hparc0.HP.COM> graham@hparc0.HP.COM (Graham Eddy) writes:
>you will want /usr/include/string.h (NOT strings.h) and you'll
>probably decide to define a few macros rather than change all that
>BSD-dependent source..
>
>bcopy	memcpy		#define bcopy(s1,s2,n)	memcpy((s2), (s1), n)

You may have problems with this, since bcopy is guaranteed to handle
overlapping strings properly whereas memcpy isn't. You should use
memmove instead on HP-UX. (memmove will be in any ANSI-C-compliant
library, but isn't on some non-ANSI systems e.g. Sun).


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