On Fri, 2010-04-30 16:14:36 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund 
<joakim.tjernl...@transmode.se> wrote:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbg...@lug-owl.de> wrote on 2010/04/30 16:10:42:
> > On Fri, 2010-04-30 16:08:15 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund
> > <joakim.tjernl...@transmode.se> wrote:
> > > Is memcpy supposed to work when the src and dest are the same:
> > > memcpy(p, p, 100);
> >
> > It may work, but you cannot rely on it. Use memmove() alternatively.
> 
> My view too, but gcc 3.4.6 on gcc does this:
[...]

Surely, it may/will work here and there. But it's not portable :)  And
I won't rely on a "it worked once" fact.

MfG, JBG

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