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From: vlcek@mit-caf.UUCP (Jim Vlcek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: More on strcpy()
Message-ID: <904@mit-caf.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 01:52:26 GMT
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Why not define strcpy() such that the destination is guaranteed to be
equivalent to the original (before the move) source string?  While
this *suggests* an implementation, it does not out-and-out *specify*
it, yet it still seems to me to provide the behavior desired.
-- 
Jim Vlcek
vlcek@caf.mit.edu
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