Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!tank!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Bcopy, bzero and bcmp on a not-Berkeley machine Keywords: bcopy bzero bcmp berkely system_v Message-ID: <19863@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 89 16:50:48 GMT References: <1155@radig.UUCP> <13p902Mz5aZY01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <10884@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 13 In article <10884@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond) writes: >Where is it guaranteed that bcopy handles overlapping ranges correctly? >It's not in the BSD 4.3 man page. The guarantee was added somewhat late in the game. Incidentally, in the new C library, bcopy, memcpy, and memmove will all be identical. We would be happier with only one routine, but there is this standard thing. . . . -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris