| Routine |
Attributes |
Description |
| memccpy |
Copies data bytes from one buffer to another until a specified character or specified number of characters has been copied |
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| memchr |
reentrant |
Returns a pointer to the first occurrence of a specified character in a buffer |
| memcmp |
reentrant |
Compares a given number of characters from two different buffers |
| memcpy |
reentrant |
Copies a specified number of data bytes from one buffer to another |
| memmove |
reentrant |
Copies a specified number of data bytes from one buffer to another |
| memset |
reentrant |
Initializes a specified number of data bytes in a buffer to a specified character value |
The buffer manipulation routines are used to work on memory buffers on a character-by-character basis. A buffer is an array of characters like a string, however, a buffer is usually not terminated with a null character (‘\0’). For this reason, these routines require a buffer length or count argument.
All of these routines are implemented as functions. Function prototypes are included in the STRING.H include file.