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30.Dd June 4, 1993
31.Dt BSTRING 3
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm bcmp ,
35.Nm bcopy ,
36.Nm bzero ,
37.Nm memccpy ,
38.Nm memchr ,
39.Nm memcmp ,
40.Nm memcpy ,
41.Nm memmove ,
42.Nm memset
43.Nd byte string operations
44.Sh LIBRARY
45.Lb libc
46.Sh SYNOPSIS
47.In string.h
48.Ft int
49.Fn bcmp "const void *b1" "const void *b2" "size_t len"
50.Ft void
51.Fn bcopy "const void *src" "void *dst" "size_t len"
52.Ft void
53.Fn bzero "void *b" "size_t len"
54.Ft void *
55.Fn memchr "const void *b" "int c" "size_t len"
56.Ft int
57.Fn memcmp "const void *b1" "const void *b2" "size_t len"
58.Ft void *
59.Fn memccpy "void *dst" "const void *src" "int c" "size_t len"
60.Ft void *
61.Fn memcpy "void *dst" "const void *src" "size_t len"
62.Ft void *
63.Fn memmove "void *dst" "const void *src" "size_t len"
64.Ft void *
65.Fn memset "void *b" "int c" "size_t len"
66.Sh DESCRIPTION
67These functions operate on variable length strings of bytes.
68They do not check for terminating null bytes as the routines
69listed in
70.Xr string 3
71do.
72.Pp
73See the specific manual pages for more information.
74.Sh SEE ALSO
75.Xr bcmp 3 ,
76.Xr bcopy 3 ,
77.Xr bzero 3 ,
78.Xr memccpy 3 ,
79.Xr memchr 3 ,
80.Xr memcmp 3 ,
81.Xr memcpy 3 ,
82.Xr memmove 3 ,
83.Xr memset 3
84.Sh STANDARDS
85The functions
86.Fn memchr ,
87.Fn memcmp ,
88.Fn memcpy ,
89.Fn memmove ,
90and
91.Fn memset
92conform to
93.St -isoC .
94.Sh HISTORY
95The functions
96.Fn bzero
97and
98.Fn memccpy
99appeared in
100.Bx 4.3 ;
101the functions
102.Fn bcmp ,
103.Fn bcopy ,
104appeared in
105.Bx 4.2 .
106