Bart Smaalders <bart.smaald...@sun.com> wrote:
> All early strcpy implementations handle some overlapping copies
> incorrectly. In order to determine safety, it is necessary to
> find the length of the string before beginning the copy.
Could you please give us an example where this typical implementation:
char *
strcpy(s1, s2)
register char *s1;
register const char *s2;
{
char *ret = s1;
while ((*s1++ = *s2++) != '\0')
;
return (ret);
}
would handle overlapped strings incorrectly?
Jörg
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