SysV bcopy?

[William Kucharski]

I just thought I'd add my $.02 to the SYSV bcopy traffic.

Using memcpy(3) will work in most cases on most machines.

However, a problem may occur when doing an overlapping copy:

>From the SYSV man page CAVEATS:

"Character movement is performed differently in different implementations.
 Thus overlapping moves may yield suprises."

The BSD (or at least SunOS 4.0) man page says of bcopy:

"Overlapping strings are handled correctly."

Just a little caveat...

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