Explanation, please!

[T. William Wells]

In article <485.231DAAC3 at stjhmc.fidonet.org> jim.nutt at p11.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org (jim nutt) writes:
:  ->    I doubt that memcpy even existed then; and it is *not* standard
:  ->    now.  Perhaps it will be several years after the ANSI standard is
:  ->    adopted, but not till then.
:
: memcpy() IS in the ansi standard library, along with a similar
: function called memmove().

Yes, I know.  I said "it isn't standard", not "it isn't in the
standard".  The difference is that "it isn't standard" means that
you can't write portable code that assumes that it exists; the
other should be obvious.

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Bill
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