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BSTRING(3)                  BSD Programmer's Manual                 BSTRING(3)

NAME
     bcmp, bcopy, bzero, memccpy, memchr, memcmp, memcpy, memmove, memset -
     byte string operations

SYNOPSIS
     #include <string.h>

     int
     bcmp(const void *b1, const void *b2, sizet len)

     void
     bcopy(const void *src, void *dst, sizet len)

     void
     bzero(void *b, sizet len)

     void *
     memchr(const void *b, int c, sizet len)

     int
     memcmp(const void *b1, const void *b2, sizet len)

     void *
     memccpy(void *dst, const void *src, int c, sizet len)

     void *
     memcpy(void *dst, const void *src, sizet len)

     void *
     memmove(void *dst, const void *src, sizet len)

     void *
     memset(void *b, int c, sizet len)

DESCRIPTION
     These functions operate on variable length strings of bytes.  They do not
     check for terminating null bytes as the routines listed in string(3) do.

     See the specific manual pages for more information.

SEE ALSO
     bcmp(3),  bcopy(3),  bzero(3),  memccpy(3),  memchr(3),  memcmp(3),
     memcpy(3),  memmove(3),  memset(3)

STANDARDS
     The functions memchr(), memcmp(), memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() con-
     form to ANSI C3.159-1989 (``ANSI C'').

HISTORY
     The functions bzero() and memccpy() appeared in 4.3BSD; the functions
     bcmp(), bcopy(), appeared in 4.2BSD.

BSDI BSD/386                    March 26, 1993                               1











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