[Coco] Fwd: MW-C Cross compiler bug - Solved
Jamie Cho
silurian at icloud.com
Sun Mar 9 17:27:44 EDT 2014
Thanks for the link! I knew it worked for me before even though it was apparently always illegal.
On Mar 9, 2014, at 5:13 PM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 9, 2014, at 2:01 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
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>> Are you saying that both of my copies (original and the "ANSI C" versions
>> of the K&R books are wrong?
>
> Page 250 of my ANSI K&R 2nd Edition book says:
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> void *memcpy(s,ct,n) copy n characters from ct to s, and return s.
> void *memmove(s,ct,n) same as memcpy except that it works even if the objects overlap.
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> So yes, you're supposed to use memmove.
>
> The memcpy vs. memmove saga:
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> http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/misc/gcc-semibug.html
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