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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strcpy
Message-ID: <3293@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 1 Apr 88 20:48:33 GMT
References: <793@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <545@anuck.UUCP> <4190@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <836@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <17942@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <17942@watmath.waterloo.edu> rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth) writes:
>You could
>#define strmove(out,in) ((char*)memmove((void*)out, (void*)in, 1+strlen(in)))
>if it weren't for the fact that the identifier "strmove" is already
>reserved by the Standard.

You could do it anyway -- provided "you" means the vendor, rather than the
user.  You'd still be a conforming implementation; the name "strmove" is part
of the implementation's available namespace.

I object on different grounds, though: "in" is evaluated twice.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint