Frustrated trying to be portable

[Henry Spencer]

In article <4188 at skye.ed.ac.uk> richard at aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>As far as I can tell, some of the library functions described in the
>standard can be implemented portably (requiring in some cases a
>particular operating system), whereas some others can't.  For example
>the functions from <string.h> and <stdio.h> can...

I haven't studied <stdio.h>, but you need to look more closely at <string.h>
before making such statements. :-)  It is not possible to implement memmove(),
in particular, in portable C.  (Hint:  think about pointer comparisons.)
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