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diff --git a/man3/bstring.3 b/man3/bstring.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..87b133a --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/bstring.3 @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +.\" 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 1993-04-12, David Metcalfe +.\" Modified 1993-07-24, Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Modified 2002-01-20, Walter Harms +.TH bstring 3 2023-01-07 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +bcmp, bcopy, bzero, memccpy, memchr, memcmp, memcpy, memfrob, memmem, +memmove, memset \- byte string operations +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <string.h> +.PP +.BI "int bcmp(const void " s1 [. n "], const void " s2 [. n "], size_t " n ); +.PP +.BI "void bcopy(const void " src [. n "], void " dest [. n "], size_t " n ); +.PP +.BI "void bzero(void " s [. n "], size_t " n ); +.PP +.BI "void *memccpy(void " dest [. n "], const void " src [. n "], int " c ", \ +size_t " n ); +.PP +.BI "void *memchr(const void " s [. n "], int " c ", size_t " n ); +.PP +.BI "int memcmp(const void " s1 [. n "], const void " s2 [. n "], size_t " n ); +.PP +.BI "void *memcpy(void " dest [. n "], const void " src [. n "], size_t " n ); +.PP +.BI "void *memfrob(void " s [. n "], size_t " n ); +.PP +.BI "void *memmem(const void " haystack [. haystacklen "], size_t " haystacklen , +.BI " const void " needle [. needlelen "], size_t " needlelen ); +.PP +.BI "void *memmove(void " dest [. n "], const void " src [. n "], size_t " n ); +.PP +.BI "void *memset(void " s [. n "], int " c ", size_t " n ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The byte string functions perform operations on strings (byte arrays) +that are not necessarily null-terminated. +See the individual man pages +for descriptions of each function. +.SH NOTES +The functions +.BR bcmp () +and +.BR bcopy () +are obsolete. +Use +.BR memcmp () +and +.BR memmove () +instead. +.\" The old functions are not even available on some non-GNU/Linux systems. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR bcmp (3), +.BR bcopy (3), +.BR bzero (3), +.BR memccpy (3), +.BR memchr (3), +.BR memcmp (3), +.BR memcpy (3), +.BR memfrob (3), +.BR memmem (3), +.BR memmove (3), +.BR memset (3), +.BR string (3) |