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6 bcopy - copy byte sequence
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9 #include <strings.h>
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11 void bcopy(const void *src, void *dest, size_t n);
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14 The bcopy() function copies n bytes from src to dest. The result is
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25 │Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
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27 │bcopy() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
28 └──────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
30 4.3BSD. This function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in
31 POSIX.1-2001): use memcpy(3) or memmove(3) in new programs. Note that
32 the first two arguments are interchanged for memcpy(3) and memmove(3).
33 POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of bcopy().
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36 bstring(3), memccpy(3), memcpy(3), memmove(3), strcpy(3), strncpy(3)
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