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diff --git a/upstream/fedora-40/man3/mempcpy.3 b/upstream/fedora-40/man3/mempcpy.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2c3d8086 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/fedora-40/man3/mempcpy.3 @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 2002 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-1.0-or-later +.\" +.\" Heavily based on glibc infopages, copyright Free Software Foundation +.\" +.\" aeb, 2003, polished a little +.TH mempcpy 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.06" +.SH NAME +mempcpy, wmempcpy \- copy memory area +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */" +.B #include <string.h> +.P +.BI "void *mempcpy(void " dest "[restrict ." n "], const void " src "[restrict ." n ], +.BI " size_t " n ); +.P +.BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */" +.B #include <wchar.h> +.P +.BI "wchar_t *wmempcpy(wchar_t " dest "[restrict ." n ], +.BI " const wchar_t " src "[restrict ." n ], +.BI " size_t " n ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR mempcpy () +function is nearly identical to the +.BR memcpy (3) +function. +It copies +.I n +bytes from the object beginning at +.I src +into the object pointed to by +.IR dest . +But instead of returning the value of +.I dest +it returns a pointer to the byte following the last written byte. +.P +This function is useful in situations where a number of objects +shall be copied to consecutive memory positions. +.P +The +.BR wmempcpy () +function is identical but takes +.I wchar_t +type arguments and copies +.I n +wide characters. +.SH RETURN VALUE +.I dest ++ +.IR n . +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR mempcpy (), +.BR wmempcpy () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.SH STANDARDS +GNU. +.SH HISTORY +glibc 2.1. +.SH EXAMPLES +.EX +void * +combine(void *o1, size_t s1, void *o2, size_t s2) +{ + void *result = malloc(s1 + s2); + if (result != NULL) + mempcpy(mempcpy(result, o1, s1), o2, s2); + return result; +} +.EE +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR memccpy (3), +.BR memcpy (3), +.BR memmove (3), +.BR wmemcpy (3) |