memmove[move possibly overlapping memory]

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memmove
[move possibly overlapping memory]

    SYNOPSIS
    #include <string.h>
    void *memmove(void *dst, const void *src, size_t length);

DESCRIPTION
The function, memmove, moves length characters from the block of memory starting at *src to the memory starting at *dst. memmove reproduces the characters correctly at *dst even if the two areas overlap.

RETURNS
The function returns dst as passed.

COMPLIANCE
memmove is ANSI C.

memmove requires no supporting OS subroutines.