MOVEBYTES(3)

🎀 MOVEBYTES(3) 🎀

okay bestie, this one’s from Schily´s LIBRARY FUNCTIONS, and it’s literally the “move my data, please” girlie of the library. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

movebytes() — moves data. that’s it, that’s the vibe. 🦋

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

       char *movebytes(from, to, size)
            const void     *from;
            void           *to;
            ssize_t        size;

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

movebytes() copies size bytes from from to to. like a tiny little data handoff, no cap. 🫶

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💖 RETURN VALUE 💖

you get a pointer just after the last transferred byte in the to string. slay. ✨

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😭 ERRORS 😭

no errors are defined. literally zero, zilch, none. iconic behavior, honestly. 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• cmpbytes(3)
• cmpmbytes(3)
• cmpnullbytes(3)
• fillbytes(3)
• findbytes(3)
• movecbytes(3)
• swapbytes(3)
• zerobytes(3)

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👑 NOTES 👑

this routine correctly handles overlapping buffers. yes bestie, overlapping buffers are handled correctly — that’s the whole note, and it ate. 🔥

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💖 page made with love by Joerg Schilling on 2022/09/09 — MOVEBYTES(3), and that’s the whole vibe. 🫶