Hi, All

We were looking at  "[kernel]/lib/string.c"
(http://lxr.linux.no/source/lib/string.c#L500)

memcpy copies a part of memory to some other location
but It will not work for all cases of overlapping
blocks.(if the start of destination block falls
between the source block)

while memove copes with overlapping areas.

then why is memcpy present in the sources can't we
simply do

"#define memcpy memmove" in include/linux/string.h

or am I missing something?

Regards
Sri--
SK Malik

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