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MEMCPY(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 MEMCPY(3)

NAME
memcpy - copy memory area SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h> void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n); DESCRIPTION
The memcpy() function copies n bytes from memory area src to memory area dest. The memory areas must not overlap. Use memmove(3) if the memory areas do overlap. RETURN VALUE
The memcpy() function returns a pointer to dest. ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). +----------+---------------+---------+ |Interface | Attribute | Value | +----------+---------------+---------+ |memcpy() | Thread safety | MT-Safe | +----------+---------------+---------+ CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C89, C99, SVr4, 4.3BSD. NOTES
Failure to observe the requirement that the memory areas do not overlap has been the source of significant bugs. (POSIX and the C stan- dards are explicit that employing memcpy() with overlapping areas produces undefined behavior.) Most notably, in glibc 2.13 a performance optimization of memcpy() on some platforms (including x86-64) included changing the order in which bytes were copied from src to dest. This change revealed breakages in a number of applications that performed copying with overlapping areas. Under the previous implementa- tion, the order in which the bytes were copied had fortuitously hidden the bug, which was revealed when the copying order was reversed. In glibc 2.14, a versioned symbol was added so that old binaries (i.e., those linked against glibc versions earlier than 2.14) employed a mem- cpy() implementation that safely handles the overlapping buffers case (by providing an "older" memcpy() implementation that was aliased to memmove(3)). SEE ALSO
bcopy(3), bstring(3), memccpy(3), memmove(3), mempcpy(3), strcpy(3), strncpy(3), wmemcpy(3) COLOPHON
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MEMPCPY(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							MEMPCPY(3)

NAME
mempcpy, wmempcpy - copy memory area SYNOPSIS
#define _GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */ #include <string.h> void *mempcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n); #define _GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */ #include <wchar.h> wchar_t *wmempcpy(wchar_t *dest, const wchar_t *src, size_t n); DESCRIPTION
The mempcpy() function is nearly identical to the memcpy(3) function. It copies n bytes from the object beginning at src into the object pointed to by dest. But instead of returning the value of dest it returns a pointer to the byte following the last written byte. This function is useful in situations where a number of objects shall be copied to consecutive memory positions. The wmempcpy() function is identical but takes wchar_t type arguments and copies n wide characters. RETURN VALUE
dest + n. VERSIONS
mempcpy() first appeared in glibc in version 2.1. ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). +----------------------+---------------+---------+ |Interface | Attribute | Value | +----------------------+---------------+---------+ |mempcpy(), wmempcpy() | Thread safety | MT-Safe | +----------------------+---------------+---------+ CONFORMING TO
This function is a GNU extension. EXAMPLE
void * combine(void *o1, size_t s1, void *o2, size_t s2) { void *result = malloc(s1 + s2); if (result != NULL) mempcpy(mempcpy(result, o1, s1), o2, s2); return result; } SEE ALSO
memccpy(3), memcpy(3), memmove(3), wmemcpy(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
2015-03-02 MEMPCPY(3)
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