wmemmove(3)

wmemmove3

Copy an array of wide-characters

Usage

#include <wchar.h>

wchar_t *wmemmove(size_t n; wchar_t dest[n], const wchar_t src[n], size_t n);

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Overview

The wmemmove() function is the wide-character equivalent of the memmove(3) function. It copies n wide characters from the array starting at src to the array starting at dest. The arrays may overlap.

The programmer must ensure that there is room for at least n wide characters at dest.

Return value

wmemmove() returns dest.

Attributes

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

InterfaceAttributeValue
wmemmove()Thread safetyMT-Safe

Releases

14 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 13 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1
  4. 4.0
  5. 5.0
  6. 6.0
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. Arch

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001, C99.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.