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bcopy

NAME
LIBRARY
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ATTRIBUTES
STANDARDS
HISTORY
SEE ALSO

NAME

bcopy - copy byte sequence

LIBRARY

Standard C library ( libc , -lc )

SYNOPSIS

#include <strings.h>

[[deprecated]] void bcopy(const void src [. n ], void dest [. n ], size_t n );

DESCRIPTION

The bcopy () function copies n bytes from src to dest . The result is correct, even when both areas overlap.

RETURN VALUE

None.

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes (7).

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STANDARDS

None.

HISTORY

4.3BSD.

Marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001: use memcpy (3) or memmove (3) in new programs. Note that the first two arguments are interchanged for memcpy (3) and memmove (3). POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of bcopy ().

SEE ALSO

bstring (3), memccpy (3), memcpy (3), memmove (3), strcpy (3), strncpy (3)