David C. Partridge writes:

> If you want to copy from one mem location to another even if they overlap
> *and* preserve the contents, then you should use memmove and pay the
> overhead of the temporary buffer it probably allocates.

Just a note: memmove doesn't need any temporary storage. It just has to
decide if it's going to copy the bytes front-to-back or back-to-front
depending on the relative position of the to pointers.

Cheers,
Richard

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