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| a1eaacb1 | 1 | '\" t |
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2 | .\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) |
| 3 | .\" | |
| 5fbde956 | 4 | .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft |
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5 | .\" |
| 6 | .\" References consulted: | |
| 7 | .\" Linux libc source code | |
| 8 | .\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) | |
| 9 | .\" 386BSD man pages | |
| 10 | .\" | |
| 11 | .\" Modified Sun Feb 26 14:52:00 1995 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu> | |
| 12 | .\" Modified Tue Oct 22 23:48:10 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | |
| 13 | .\" " | |
| 4c1c5274 | 14 | .TH bcopy 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" |
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15 | .SH NAME |
| 16 | bcopy \- copy byte sequence | |
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17 | .SH LIBRARY |
| 18 | Standard C library | |
| 19 | .RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) | |
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20 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 21 | .nf | |
| 22 | .B #include <strings.h> | |
| 68e4db0a | 23 | .PP |
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24 | .BI "[[deprecated]] void bcopy(const void " src [. n "], void " dest [. n "], \ |
| 25 | size_t " n ); | |
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26 | .fi |
| 27 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 28 | The | |
| 63aa9df0 | 29 | .BR bcopy () |
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30 | function copies |
| 31 | .I n | |
| 32 | bytes from | |
| 33 | .I src | |
| 34 | to | |
| 35 | .IR dest . | |
| 36 | The result is correct, even when both areas overlap. | |
| 47297adb | 37 | .SH RETURN VALUE |
| fea681da | 38 | None. |
| d1dcc57f | 39 | .SH ATTRIBUTES |
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40 | For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see |
| 41 | .BR attributes (7). | |
| 42 | .TS | |
| 43 | allbox; | |
| c466875e | 44 | lbx lb lb |
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45 | l l l. |
| 46 | Interface Attribute Value | |
| 47 | T{ | |
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48 | .na |
| 49 | .nh | |
| d1dcc57f | 50 | .BR bcopy () |
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51 | T} Thread safety MT-Safe |
| 52 | .TE | |
| c466875e | 53 | .sp 1 |
| 3113c7f3 | 54 | .SH STANDARDS |
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55 | None. |
| 56 | .SH HISTORY | |
| c13182ef | 57 | 4.3BSD. |
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58 | .PP |
| 59 | Marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001: use | |
| fb186734 | 60 | .BR memcpy (3) |
| b6dd43ba | 61 | or |
| fb186734 | 62 | .BR memmove (3) |
| c13182ef | 63 | in new programs. |
| c4bb193f | 64 | Note that the first two arguments |
| fea681da | 65 | are interchanged for |
| fb186734 | 66 | .BR memcpy (3) |
| b6dd43ba | 67 | and |
| fb186734 | 68 | .BR memmove (3). |
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69 | POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of |
| 70 | .BR bcopy (). | |
| 47297adb | 71 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 879091c9 | 72 | .BR bstring (3), |
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73 | .BR memccpy (3), |
| 74 | .BR memcpy (3), | |
| 75 | .BR memmove (3), | |
| 76 | .BR strcpy (3), | |
| 77 | .BR strncpy (3) |