mempcpy - Man Page

copy memory area

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Synopsis

#define _GNU_SOURCE         /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
#include <string.h>

void *mempcpy(void dest[restrict .n], const void src[restrict .n],
              size_t n);

#define _GNU_SOURCE         /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
#include <wchar.h>

wchar_t *wmempcpy(wchar_t dest[restrict .n],
              const wchar_t src[restrict .n],
              size_t n);

Description

The mempcpy() function is nearly identical to the memcpy(3) function. It copies n bytes from the object beginning at src into the object pointed to by dest. But instead of returning the value of dest it returns a pointer to the byte following the last written byte.

This function is useful in situations where a number of objects shall be copied to consecutive memory positions.

The wmempcpy() function is identical but takes wchar_t type arguments and copies n wide characters.

Return Value

dest + n.

Attributes

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

InterfaceAttributeValue
mempcpy(), wmempcpy()Thread safetyMT-Safe

Standards

GNU.

History

glibc 2.1.

Examples

void *
combine(void *o1, size_t s1, void *o2, size_t s2)
{
    void *result = malloc(s1 + s2);
    if (result != NULL)
        mempcpy(mempcpy(result, o1, s1), o2, s2);
    return result;
}

See Also

memccpy(3), memcpy(3), memmove(3), wmemcpy(3)

Referenced By

memcpy(3), memstomp(1), string_copying(7), wmemcpy(3).

The man page wmempcpy(3) is an alias of mempcpy(3).

2024-05-02 Linux man-pages 6.9.1