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RETURN VALUE top The memcpy() function returns a pointer to dest.
memcpy(3) - Linux manual page (2008) · curated source · GPL / MIT / BSD (per page) · see it in the source
In glibc 2.14, a versioned symbol was added so that old binaries (i.e., those linked against glibc versions earlier than 2.14) employed a memcpy() implementation that safely handles the overlapping buffers case (by providing an "older" memcpy() implementation that was aliased to memmove(3)).
memcpy(3) - Linux manual page (2008) · curated source · GPL / MIT / BSD (per page) · see it in the source
CAVEATS top Failure to observe the requirement that the memory areas do not overlap has been the source of significant bugs. (POSIX and the C standards are explicit that employing memcpy() with overlapping areas produces undefined behavior.) Most notably, in glibc 2.13 a performance optimization of memcpy() on some platforms (including x86-64) included changing the order in which bytes were copied from src to dest.
memcpy(3) - Linux manual page (2008) · curated source · GPL / MIT / BSD (per page) · see it in the source

Research query: memcpy · jobs: 1 · on-topic sources: 1 · review: Thin

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In glibc 2.14, a versioned symbol was added so that old binaries (i.e., those linked against glibc versions earlier than 2.14) employed a memcpy() implementation that safely handles the overlapping buffers case (by providing an "older" memcpy() implementation that was aliased to memmove(3)). — memcpy(3) - Linux manual page (2008)

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memcpy(3) - Linux manual page (2008)

RETURN VALUE top The memcpy() function returns a pointer to dest. (new this job) — source

In glibc 2.14, a versioned symbol was added so that old binaries (i.e., those linked against glibc versions earlier than 2.14) employed a memcpy() implementation that safely handles the overlapping buffers case (by providing an "older" memcpy() implementation that was aliased to memmove(3)). (new this job) — source

CAVEATS top Failure to observe the requirement that the memory areas do not overlap has been the source of significant bugs. (POSIX and the C standards are explicit that employing memcpy() with overlapping areas produces undefined behavior.) Most notably, in glibc 2.13 a performance optimization of memcpy() on some platforms (including x86-64) included changing the order in which bytes were copied from src to dest. (new this job) — source

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Status Thin. Verified claims 3. On-topic sources 1 (reused 0). Dropped 0 collector hit(s) and 0 off-topic local claim(s). Conflicts 0. Coverage: memcpy.

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