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From: nw@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Neal Weidenhofer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strcpy
Message-ID: <27031@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 8 Apr 88 01:24:17 GMT
References: <725@xyzzy.UUCP> <137@polygen.UUCP>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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Summary: The relevant paragraph from dpANS

In article <137@polygen.UUCP>, pablo@polygen.uucp (Pablo Halpern) writes:
>        To avoid incorrect inferences from readers, the entry should
> be revised to just say that the copy INCLUDES the NUL terminator.
> 
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In dpANS Section 4.11.2.3 the description is:

The |strcpy| function copies the string pointed to by |s2|
(including the terminating null character) into the array
pointed to by |s1|.  If copying takes place between objects that
overlap, the behavior is undefined.

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