NAME
bcopy – copy byte string
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <strings.h>
void
bcopy(const void *src, void *dst, size_t len);
DESCRIPTION
The bcopy() function copies len bytes from string src to string dst. The two strings may overlap. If len is zero, no bytes are copied.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
A bcopy() function appeared in 4.2BSD. Its prototype existed previously in ⟨string.h⟩ before it was moved to ⟨strings.h⟩ for IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”) compliance.
bcopy() was deprecated in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”) and removed in IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (“POSIX.1”).