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?
