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diff --git a/devdocs/c/string%2Fbyte%2Fmemcpy.html b/devdocs/c/string%2Fbyte%2Fmemcpy.html deleted file mode 100644 index d2483fba..00000000 --- a/devdocs/c/string%2Fbyte%2Fmemcpy.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,94 +0,0 @@ - <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">memcpy, memcpy_s</h1> <table class="t-dcl-begin"> <tr class="t-dsc-header"> <th> Defined in header <code><string.h></code> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th> </tr> <tr class="t-dcl-rev-aux"> <td></td> <td rowspan="3">(1)</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr class="t-dcl t-until-c99"> <td> <pre data-language="c">void* memcpy( void *dest, const void *src, size_t count );</pre> -</td> <td> <span class="t-mark-rev t-until-c99">(until C99)</span> </td> </tr> <tr class="t-dcl t-since-c99"> <td> <pre data-language="c">void* memcpy( void *restrict dest, const void *restrict src, size_t count );</pre> -</td> <td> <span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c99">(since C99)</span> </td> </tr> <tr class="t-dcl t-since-c11"> <td> <pre data-language="c">errno_t memcpy_s( void *restrict dest, rsize_t destsz, - const void *restrict src, rsize_t count );</pre> -</td> <td> (2) </td> <td> <span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c11">(since C11)</span> </td> </tr> </table> <div class="t-li1"> -<span class="t-li">1)</span> Copies <code>count</code> characters from the object pointed to by <code>src</code> to the object pointed to by <code>dest</code>. Both objects are interpreted as arrays of <code>unsigned char</code>.</div> <div class="t-li1"> - The behavior is undefined if access occurs beyond the end of the <code>dest</code> array. If the objects overlap<span class="t-rev-inl t-since-c99"><span> (which is a violation of the <a href="../../language/restrict" title="c/language/restrict"><code>restrict</code></a> contract)</span><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c99">(since C99)</span></span></span>, the behavior is undefined. The behavior is undefined if either <code>dest</code> or <code>src</code> is an invalid or null pointer.</div> <div class="t-li1"> -<span class="t-li">2)</span> Same as <span class="t-v">(1)</span>, except that the following errors are detected at runtime and cause the entire destination range <code>[dest, dest+destsz)</code> to be zeroed out (if both <code>dest</code> and <code>destsz</code> are valid), as well as call the currently installed <a href="../../error/set_constraint_handler_s" title="c/error/set constraint handler s">constraint handler</a> function: <ul> -<li> <code>dest</code> or <code>src</code> is a null pointer </li> -<li> <code>destsz</code> or <code>count</code> is greater than <code>RSIZE_MAX</code> </li> -<li> <code>count</code> is greater than <code>destsz</code> (buffer overflow would occur) </li> -<li> the source and the destination objects overlap</li> -</ul> -</div> <div class="t-li1"> - The behavior is undefined if the size of the character array pointed to by <code>dest</code> < <code>count</code> <= <code>destsz</code>; in other words, an erroneous value of <code>destsz</code> does not expose the impending buffer overflow. As with all bounds-checked functions, <code>memcpy_s</code> only guaranteed to be available if <code>__STDC_LIB_EXT1__</code> is defined by the implementation and if the user defines <code>__STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT1__</code> to the integer constant <code>1</code> before including <a href="../byte" title="c/string/byte"><code><string.h></code></a>.</div> <h3 id="Parameters"> Parameters</h3> <table class="t-par-begin"> <tr class="t-par"> <td> dest </td> <td> - </td> <td> pointer to the object to copy to </td> -</tr> <tr class="t-par"> <td> destsz </td> <td> - </td> <td> max number of bytes to modify in the destination (typically the size of the destination object) </td> -</tr> <tr class="t-par"> <td> src </td> <td> - </td> <td> pointer to the object to copy from </td> -</tr> <tr class="t-par"> <td> count </td> <td> - </td> <td> number of bytes to copy </td> -</tr> -</table> <h3 id="Return_value"> Return value</h3> <div class="t-li1"> -<span class="t-li">1)</span> Returns a copy of <code>dest</code> -</div> <div class="t-li1"> -<span class="t-li">2)</span> Returns zero on success and non-zero value on error. Also on error, if <code>dest</code> is not a null pointer and <code>destsz</code> is valid, writes <code>destsz</code> zero bytes in to the destination array.</div> <h3 id="Notes"> Notes</h3> <p><code>memcpy</code> may be used to set the <a href="../../language/object#Effective_type" title="c/language/object">effective type</a> of an object obtained by an allocation function.</p> -<p><code>memcpy</code> is the fastest library routine for memory-to-memory copy. It is usually more efficient than <code><a href="strcpy" title="c/string/byte/strcpy">strcpy</a></code>, which must scan the data it copies or <code><a href="memmove" title="c/string/byte/memmove">memmove</a></code>, which must take precautions to handle overlapping inputs.</p> -<p>Several C compilers transform suitable memory-copying loops to <code>memcpy</code> calls.</p> -<p>Where <a href="../../language/object#Strict_aliasing" title="c/language/object">strict aliasing</a> prohibits examining the same memory as values of two different types, <code>memcpy</code> may be used to convert the values.</p> -<h3 id="Example"> Example</h3> <div class="t-example"> <div class="c source-c"><pre data-language="c">#define __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT1__ 1 -#include <stdio.h> -#include <stdint.h> -#include <inttypes.h> -#include <string.h> -#include <stdlib.h> - -int main(void) -{ - // simple usage - char source[] = "once upon a midnight dreary...", dest[4]; - memcpy(dest, source, sizeof dest); - for(size_t n = 0; n < sizeof dest; ++n) - putchar(dest[n]); - - // setting effective type of allocated memory to be int - int *p = malloc(3*sizeof(int)); // allocated memory has no effective type - int arr[3] = {1,2,3}; - memcpy(p,arr,3*sizeof(int)); // allocated memory now has an effective type - - // reinterpreting data - double d = 0.1; -// int64_t n = *(int64_t*)(&d); // strict aliasing violation - int64_t n; - memcpy(&n, &d, sizeof d); // OK - printf("\n%a is %" PRIx64 " as an int64_t\n", d, n); - -#ifdef __STDC_LIB_EXT1__ - set_constraint_handler_s(ignore_handler_s); - char src[] = "aaaaaaaaaa"; - char dst[] = "xyxyxyxyxy"; - int r = memcpy_s(dst,sizeof dst,src,5); - printf("dst = \"%s\", r = %d\n", dst,r); - r = memcpy_s(dst,5,src,10); // count is greater than destsz - printf("dst = \""); - for(size_t ndx=0; ndx<sizeof dst; ++ndx) { - char c = dst[ndx]; - c ? printf("%c", c) : printf("\\0"); - } - printf("\", r = %d\n", r); -#endif -}</pre></div> <p>Possible output:</p> -<div class="text source-text"><pre data-language="c">once -0x1.999999999999ap-4 is 3fb999999999999a as an int64_t -dst = "aaaaayxyxy", r = 0 -dst = "\0\0\0\0\0yxyxy", r = 22</pre></div> </div> <h3 id="References"> References</h3> <ul> -<li> C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011): </li> -<ul> -<li> 7.24.2.1 The memcpy function (p: 362) </li> -<li> K.3.7.1.1 The memcpy_s function (p: 614) </li> -</ul> -<li> C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999): </li> -<ul><li> 7.21.2.1 The memcpy function (p: 325) </li></ul> -<li> C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990): </li> -<ul><li> 4.11.2.1 The memcpy function </li></ul> -</ul> <h3 id="See_also"> See also</h3> <table class="t-dsc-begin"> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="memccpy" title="c/string/byte/memccpy"> <span class="t-lines"><span>memccpy</span></span></a></div> -<div><span class="t-lines"><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c23">(C23)</span></span></span></div> </td> <td> copies one buffer to another, stopping after the specified delimiter <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> </td> -</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="memmove" title="c/string/byte/memmove"> <span class="t-lines"><span>memmove</span><span>memmove_s</span></span></a></div> -<div><span class="t-lines"><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c11">(C11)</span></span></span></div> </td> <td> moves one buffer to another <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> </td> -</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="../wide/wmemcpy" title="c/string/wide/wmemcpy"> <span class="t-lines"><span>wmemcpy</span><span>wmemcpy_s</span></span></a></div> -<div><span class="t-lines"><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c95">(C95)</span></span><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c11">(C11)</span></span></span></div> </td> <td> copies a certain amount of wide characters between two non-overlapping arrays <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> </td> -</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td colspan="2"> <span><a href="https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/byte/memcpy" title="cpp/string/byte/memcpy">C++ documentation</a></span> for <code>memcpy</code> </td> -</tr> </table> <div class="_attribution"> - <p class="_attribution-p"> - © cppreference.com<br>Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Unported License v3.0.<br> - <a href="https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/byte/memcpy" class="_attribution-link">https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/byte/memcpy</a> - </p> -</div> |