From 339c056f856313e215baab8ddc4bc0ce064b4571 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: schwarze <>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:38:53 +0000
Subject: update HISTORY and SEE ALSO for all of string(3), together with
 various smaller improvements; jmc@ and nicm@ both ask me to get this in
 because further tweaking will be easier in-tree

---
 src/lib/libc/string/memcpy.3 | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/lib/libc/string/memcpy.3')

diff --git a/src/lib/libc/string/memcpy.3 b/src/lib/libc/string/memcpy.3
index 1deb03631b..e95d670ad9 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/string/memcpy.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/string/memcpy.3
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.\"	$OpenBSD: memcpy.3,v 1.8 2011/07/25 00:38:52 schwarze Exp $
+.\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
 .\" All rights reserved.
 .\"
@@ -29,9 +31,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$OpenBSD: memcpy.3,v 1.7 2007/05/31 19:19:32 jmc Exp $
-.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 25 2011 $
 .Dt MEMCPY 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -60,18 +60,26 @@ function returns the original value of
 .Xr memccpy 3 ,
 .Xr memmove 3 ,
 .Xr strcpy 3 ,
-.Xr strlcpy 3
+.Xr strlcpy 3 ,
+.Xr wmemcpy 3
 .Sh STANDARDS
 The
 .Fn memcpy
 function conforms to
 .St -ansiC .
-.Sh BUGS
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn memcpy
+function first appeared in
+.At V
+and was reimplemented for
+.Bx 4.3 Tahoe .
+.Sh CAVEATS
 In this implementation
 .Fn memcpy
 is implemented using
 .Xr bcopy 3 ,
 and therefore the buffers may overlap.
 On other systems, copying overlapping buffers may produce surprises.
-A simpler solution is to not use
-.Fn memcpy .
+A portable, safe solution is to use
+.Xr memmove 3 .
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