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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

Multithreading (see pthreads(7) )

The memcpy() function is thread-safe.

Conforming to

SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001.

See Also

bcopy(3) , memccpy(3) , memmove(3) , mempcpy(3) , strcpy(3) , strncpy(3) , wmemcpy(3)

Colophon

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