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Re: Bug in getcwd implementation in lib/sh/getcwd.c
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Bug in getcwd implementation in lib/sh/getcwd.c |
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Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:30:01 +0200 |
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Hugh Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
> As I've been re-examining "The Practice of Programming" (Kernighan and Pike)
> I'd like to ask: is there a reason why you wouldn't replace memcpy
> with memmove, so if these ever overlap it still works?
A newly allocated block of memory cannot overlap with anything.
Andreas.
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