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Something feels wrong about using memccpy to copy strings... ever since I saw bugs where people used memcpy incorrectly. And is there a wchar_t version of memc

• saagarjha 5y ago
  memccpy≠memcpy, even though their names are similar. While the function is somewhat generic, I would bet 90+% of its use is going to be to copy null-terminated strings.
  • Tempest1981 5y ago
    Right, maybe I'm just reacting to the name. I've had to educate many novices about using memcpy with incorrect lengths... either 1 short (no null), or even sizeof(src) and wondering why only 4 or 8 bytes got copied. Now if I steer them to hot new memccpy, they may hear "memcpy" and run off: "memcpy? Sure, I know that!"