Re: why use memcpy when memmove is there?

[Stefan Richter]

sk malik wrote:
> memcpy copies a part of memory to some other location
> but It will not work for all cases of overlapping
> blocks.(if the start of destination block falls
> between the source block)
> 
> while memove copes with overlapping areas.
> 
> then why is memcpy present in the sources can't we
> simply do
> 
> "#define memcpy memmove" in include/linux/string.h
> 
> or am I missing something?

The restriction that memcpy is undefined for overlapping areas (IOW, is
only defined for non-overlapping areas) can be used for optimizations in
memcpy which are not possible in memmove.  An example, I suppose:
http://lxr.linux.no/source/arch/m68k/lib/string.c#L79
http://lxr.linux.no/source/arch/m68k/lib/string.c#L146
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