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+'\" t
+.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
+.\"
+.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft
+.\"
+.\" References consulted:
+.\"     Linux libc source code
+.\"     Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
+.\"     386BSD man pages
+.\"
+.\" Modified Sun Feb 26 14:52:00 1995 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
+.\" Modified Tue Oct 22 23:48:10 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
+.\" "
+.TH bcopy 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.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).
+.TS
+allbox;
+lbx lb lb
+l l l.
+Interface	Attribute	Value
+T{
+.na
+.nh
+.BR bcopy ()
+T}	Thread safety	MT-Safe
+.TE
+.sp 1
+.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)