memcpy != bcopy (Was Re: bcopy() bzero())

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1990Feb23.225358.375 at sj.ate.slb.com> konath at sj.ate.slb.com (Kannan Konath) writes:
>In the VAX-VMS-C manual,  it states that memmove() has exactly the same
>functionality as  memcpy().  Does that mean memmove() does not handle
>overlapped moves or does that mean memcpy() handles overlapped moves.

ANSI C memcpy must not be handed overlapping arguments, whereas ANSI C
memmove is required to handle them correctly.  How this corresponds to
VAX VMS C is another question entirely.
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