memcpy vs. memmove (was: Re: Explanation, please!)

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Thu Sep 15 09:04:32 AEST 1988


In article <2063 at cuuxb.ATT.COM> mmengel at cuuxb.UUCP (Marc W. Mengel) writes:
>The issue is that to make memcpy() work the way you want it to, you
>need to define pointer semantics for comparison on pointers that don't
>point into the same array/aggregate...

This is largely irrelevant, since the insides of memcpy will usually be
highly machine-specific anyway.
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