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C COMPILER LIBRARY FUNCTIONS->Detailed Descriptions->memcpy()

Summary

#include <string.h>

    

char *memcpy(void *dest,void* src, size_t count);

Copy characters from one buffer to another

Parameters

    

dest	Pointer to buffer to copy to
src	Pointer to buffer to copy from
count	Number of characters to copy

Description

This function copies count bytes from src to dest.  If the source and destination buffers overlap, then the function does not guarantee that the original bytes in the overlapping region will be copied before they are overwritten.  Use memmove() for overlapping buffers.



Return Value

The function returns a pointer to the start of the start of the destination buffer.