[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Actually making bcopy into memcpy isn't safe on all systems since bcopy
> deals with overlapping strings and memcpy doesn't. (At least the
> FreeBSD bcopy manpage says that bcopy does, and memcpy maybe does but it
> depends on your implementation).
Right, yeah, that was my point.
bcopy => memmove is safe. bcopy => memcpy is only safe if you know what's
being copied and how. (memcpy frequently can't handle overlapping copies,
since it's a lot faster to not worry about that. bcopy sometimes can and
sometimes can't. memmove is required to be able to.)
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