Bcopy, bzero and bcmp on a not-Berkeley machine

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.UUCP
Fri Sep 29 02:50:48 AEST 1989


In article <10884 at riks.csl.sony.co.jp> diamond at csl.sony.co.jp
(Norman Diamond) writes:
>Where is it guaranteed that bcopy handles overlapping ranges correctly?
>It's not in the BSD 4.3 man page.

The guarantee was added somewhat late in the game.

Incidentally, in the new C library, bcopy, memcpy, and memmove will all
be identical.  We would be happier with only one routine, but there is
this standard thing. . . .
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