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Re:Unix v6 Ported to ANSI C by agumonkey on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @04:28PM (#3212901)
reminds me of the intel comment in their implementation of memcpy, something like 'no overlay check as implicit convention'
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Re:Unix v6 Ported to ANSI C by microtherion on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @05:34PM (#3213183)
Yes, the standards say that the behavior of memcpy, as opposed to memmove, is undefined when the arguments overlap.
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