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.TH bcopy 3 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.04"
.SH NAME
bcopy \- copy byte sequence
.SH LIBRARY
Standard C library
.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <strings.h>
.PP
.BI "[[deprecated]] void bcopy(const void " src [. n "], void " dest [. n "], \
size_t " n );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR bcopy ()
function copies
.I n
bytes from
.I src
to
.IR dest .
The result is correct, even when both areas overlap.
.SH RETURN VALUE
None.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
.BR attributes (7).
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Interface	Attribute	Value
T{
.BR bcopy ()
T}	Thread safety	MT-Safe
.TE
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.SH STANDARDS
None.
.SH HISTORY
4.3BSD.
.PP
Marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001: use
.BR memcpy (3)
or
.BR memmove (3)
in new programs.
Note that the first two arguments
are interchanged for
.BR memcpy (3)
and
.BR memmove (3).
POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of
.BR bcopy ().
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR bstring (3),
.BR memccpy (3),
.BR memcpy (3),
.BR memmove (3),
.BR strcpy (3),
.BR strncpy (3)