4.3BSD-Reno/src/lib/libc/string/bstring.3

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.TH BSTRING 3 "May 15, 1990"
.UC
.SH NAME
bcmp, bcopy, bzero, memccpy, memchr, memcmp, memcpy, memmove,
memset \- byte string operations
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
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#include <string.h>

int
bcmp(const char *b1, const char *b2, size_t len);

void
bcopy(const char *src, char *dst, size_t len);

void
bzero(char *b, size_t len);

void *
memchr(const void *b, int c, size_t len);

int
memcmp(const void *b1, const void *b2, size_t len);

char *
memccpy(char *dst, const char *src, int c, size_t len);

void *
memcpy(void *dst, const void *src, size_t len);

void *
memmove(void *dst, const void *src, size_t len);

void *
memset(void *b, int c, size_t len)
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.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
These functions operate on variable length strings of bytes.
They do not check for terminating null bytes as the routines
listed in
.IR string (3)
do.
.PP
See the specific manual pages for more information.
.SH SEE\ ALSO
bcmp(3), bcopy(3), bzero(3), memccpy(3), memchr(3), memcmp(3), memcpy(3),
memmove(3), memset(3)
.SH STANDARDS
.IR Memchr ,
.IR memcmp ,
.IR memcpy ,
.IR memmove ,
and
.I memset
conform to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C'').