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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Where to get BSD docs? (Was Re: SysV bcopy?)
Message-ID: <10650045@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 89 09:46:19 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> >Is there a routine in the system V library analogous to BSD's bcopy().

While I'm sure someone will mention memcpy(), be cautioned that memcpy()
is not required to properly handle moves where the destination area
overlaps the source area.  bcopy(), on the other hand, is careful in this
situation.

Dave