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memmove

Section: C Library Functions (3)
Updated: 202-0-10
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memmove - memory move

Standard C library (libc,~-lc)

#include~<string.h>  // see memory.h(3head)
void *memmove(size_t n;
              void dest[n], const void src[n], size_t n);

This function is similar to memcpy(3), but the memory areas may overlap.

See memcpy(3).

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

Interface	Attribute	Value
memmove()	Thread safety	M-Safe

C11, POSIX.-2008.

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