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+.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
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+.\" Chris Torek.
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+.\" from: @(#)bcopy.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
+.\" $NetBSD: bcopy.9,v 1.9 2003/08/07 10:31:30 agc Exp $
+.\"
+.Dd July 7, 2001
+.Dt BCOPY 9
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm bcopy
+.Nd copy byte string
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In sys/systm.h
+.Ft void
+.Fn bcopy "const void *src" "void *dst" "size_t len"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Bf -symbolic
+The
+.Fn bcopy
+interface is obsolete.
+Do not add new code using it.
+It will soon be purged.
+Use
+.Xr memcpy 9
+instead.
+(The
+.Fn bcopy
+function is now a macro for
+.Xr memcpy 9 . )
+.Ef
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn bcopy
+function
+copies
+.Fa len
+bytes from string
+.Fa src
+to string
+.Fa dst .
+.Pp
+.Bf -symbolic
+Unlike
+.Xr bcopy 3
+the two strings must not overlap!
+.Ef
+In the traditional
+.Bx
+kernel, overlapping copies were handled by the now-purged
+.Fn ovbcopy
+function.
+If you need to copy overlapping data, see
+.Xr memmove 9 .
+.Pp
+If
+.Fa len
+is zero, no bytes are copied.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr bcopy 3 ,
+.Xr memcpy 9 ,
+.Xr memmove 9