[MPlayer-dev-eng] Use of memcpy with overlapping memory instead	of	memmove
    Alex Beregszaszi 
    alex at fsn.hu
       
    Tue Apr  6 13:56:20 CEST 2004
    
    
  
Hi,
> >> While I was editing mencoder.c I saw a few memcpy's with potential
> >> overlapping source and destination.
> 
> > i think that's only of academic interest. or did you see an actual
> > memcpy implementation that copies backwards?
> 
> I've seen (and created) some of them ... :-)
> 
> Point is of course, that it is better to just follow specifications.
> Just rely on the fact that most implementations will work anyway, even
> though it is not guaranteed, is kind of sloppy IMHO.
Any progress on fixing these issues?:)
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