Bcopy, bzero and bcmp on a not-Berkeley machine

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <13p902Mz5aZY01 at amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, kucharsk at uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski) writes:

|   >	#define bcopy(fr,to,cnt) memcpy(to,fr,cnt)
|  
|   Here's where you may have problems, depending upon the use in your program.
|   The big difference between bcopy and memcpy is that bcopy is defined to
|   handle copies of overlapping ranges of memory correctly while memcpy's
|   behavior in the same situtation is implementation and/or architecture
|   dependent.

  What you want here is memmove, not memcpy.
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