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1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
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4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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35.\" $OpenBSD: bcopy.3,v 1.2 1996/08/19 08:33:57 tholo Exp $
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37.Dd April 19, 1991
38.Dt BCOPY 3
39.Os BSD 4.2
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm bcopy
42.Nd copy byte string
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Fd #include <string.h>
45.Ft void
46.Fn bcopy "const void *src" "void *dst" "size_t len"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Fn bcopy
50function
51copies
52.Fa len
53bytes from string
54.Fa src
55to string
56.Fa dst .
57The two strings may overlap.
58If
59.Fa len
60is zero, no bytes are copied.
61.Sh SEE ALSO
62.Xr memccpy 3 ,
63.Xr memcpy 3 ,
64.Xr memmove 3 ,
65.Xr strcpy 3 ,
66.Xr strncpy 3
67.Sh HISTORY
68A
69.Fn bcopy
70function appeared in
71.Bx 4.2 .