Daniel Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Ian Abbott wrote:
>> > However, the Linux man page for bcopy(3) do not say the strings can
>> > overlap
>>  Presumably the man page is incorrect
> 
> Well, can we actually guarantee that bcopy() will work on all
> platforms where memmove() is not present?

The question is, do we need such a guarantee?  bcopy() doesn't come
out of nowhere, it's a BSD thing.  If the original BSD man pages
claimed it to be overlapping-block-safe, that's good enough for me.

Ian, can you clarify what you meant by "BSD man pages"?  Which BSD?

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