Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: memcpy vs. memmove (was: Re: Explanation, please!)
Message-ID: <1988Sep14.230432.28541@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8389@smoke.ARPA> <7039@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <2063@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 88 23:04:32 GMT

In article <2063@cuuxb.ATT.COM> mmengel@cuuxb.UUCP (Marc W. Mengel) writes:
>The issue is that to make memcpy() work the way you want it to, you
>need to define pointer semantics for comparison on pointers that don't
>point into the same array/aggregate...

This is largely irrelevant, since the insides of memcpy will usually be
highly machine-specific anyway.
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