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> bcopy doesn't support overlapping ranges on all systems.
> 
> eg. IRIX 6.2 man page:
> 
> NOTE
>      The use of overlapping buffers with bcopy is not guaranteed to work.  Use
>      the memmove(3C) function if the buffers might overlap.
> 
> 

Since BSD was the first "implementation" of b{copy|zero} stuff i
think our implementation is correct no?

Considering IRIX didn't have snprintf in thier c library in their 1997
release says something doesn't it?

:)

-Alfred


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