1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" Chris Torek. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 16.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 17.\" without specific prior written permission. 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 20.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 21.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 22.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 23.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" @(#)bcopy.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 32.\" $FreeBSD$ 33.\" 34.Dd August 14, 2015 35.Dt BCOPY 3 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm bcopy 39.Nd copy byte string 40.Sh LIBRARY 41.Lb libc 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.In strings.h 44.Ft void 45.Fn bcopy "const void *src" "void *dst" "size_t len" 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47The 48.Fn bcopy 49function 50copies 51.Fa len 52bytes from string 53.Fa src 54to string 55.Fa dst . 56The two strings may overlap. 57If 58.Fa len 59is zero, no bytes are copied. 60.Sh SEE ALSO 61.Xr memccpy 3 , 62.Xr memcpy 3 , 63.Xr memmove 3 , 64.Xr strcpy 3 , 65.Xr strncpy 3 66.Sh HISTORY 67A 68.Fn bcopy 69function appeared in 70.Bx 4.2 . 71Its prototype existed previously in 72.In string.h 73before it was moved to 74.In strings.h 75for 76.St -p1003.1-2001 77compliance. 78.Pp 79The 80.St -p1003.1-2008 81removes the specification of 82.Fn bcopy 83and it is marked as LEGACY in 84.St -p1003.1-2004 . 85New programs should use 86.Xr memmove 3 . 87If the input and output buffer do not overlap, then 88.Xr memcpy 3 89is more efficient. 90Note that 91.Fn bcopy 92takes 93.Ar src 94and 95.Ar dst 96in the opposite order from 97.Fn memmove 98and 99.Fn memcpy . 100